TY - BOOK AU - Toffler,Alvin TI - Powershift: knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century SN - 0553292153 PY - 1990/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Bantam Books KW - Social history KW - 1945- KW - Economic history KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Social change N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The powershift era--Muscle, money, and mind--Beyond the age of glitz--Force : the Yakuza component--Wealth : Morgan, Milken-- and after--Knowledge : a wealth of symbols--Material-ismo!--The ultimate substitute--The checkout battle--Extra-intelligence--Net power--The widening war--The executive thought police--Total information war--The cubbyhole crash--The flex-firm--Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars--The autonomous employee--The power-mosaic--CODA : the new system for wealth creation--The decisive decades--The invisible party--Info-tactics--Meta-tactics--A market for spies--The info-agenda--The image makers--Subversive media--The "screenie" generation--CODA : yearnings for a new dark age--The global "K-factor"--The fast and the slow--Socialism's collision with the future--The power of balance--Triads : Tokyo--Berlin--Washington--The global gladiators--CODA : freedom, order, and chance ER -