Revolutionary Wealth How it will be created and how it will change our lives

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ISBN: 9780385522076 | 038552207X
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Copyright: 6/12/2007

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Since the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have offered millions of readers new ways to think about and understand life in today's high-speed, constantly changing world. Now, writing with the same grasp and clarity that made their earlier books bestselling classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth sweeping the planet. Once again, they provide penetrating, ground-breaking ideas about how far-reaching changes in business, government, and society are transforming our lives in the twenty-first century.

Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Revolution
Spearheading Wealth	p. 3
Fad of the Month
Loosened Constraints
Guitars and Anti-Heroes
Giggle News
Embedding Intelligence
Capital Tools for Knowledge
The Wilder Shores
Converging Possibilities
The Child of Desire	p. 13
The Meaning of Wealth
Managers of Desire
Deep Fundamentals
Waves of Wealth	p. 19
The Pre-Historic Einstein
The Man Who Ate Himself
Beyond Fantasy
Today's Wealth Wave
Three Lives, Three Worlds
Deep Fundamentals	p. 24
The Inerrantists
Obsolete Fundamentals
The Future of the Job
Interplay
Rearranging Time
The Clash of Speeds	p. 31
Trains on Time?
Ready with the Radar
Leaders and Laggards
When Elephants Stand Pat
Inertia Vs. Hyper-Speed
The Synchronization Industry	p. 41
Dancing Toward Productivity
No More Cold Eggs
No Last-Minute Scramble
The Arrhythmic Economy	p. 46
The Ecology of Time
Casualties of Time
Post-merger Blues
The Time Tax
The Technology Ballet
Supper Without Sushi
The New Timescape	p. 52
The Chains of Time
Love at High Speed
Customizing Time
When Good Ideas Arrive
Media Time
Family, Friends and Face Time
The Americanization of Time?
The 24/7 Future
Whizzing Toward Where?
Stretching Space
The Great Circle	p. 63
Asia, Ho!
Opening the Floodgates
Higher-Value-Added Places	p. 66
Yesterday's Places
Dissolving Borders
The Cheap-Labor Derby
Tomorrow's Real Estate
Spatial Reach	p. 73
Personal Geography
Mobile Money
Invaders and Invaded
An Unready World	p. 78
More Capitalist Than Thou
The Evian and Ketchup Test
Yellow Dust
True Believers
Thrust Reversers	p. 84
The New Titanic
Export Overload
The Nano-Teaspoon
Mad Max Scenarios
The Space Drive	p. 90
From Dialysis to Heart Pumps
Pilots, Planes and Packages
Unexplored Wealth Frontiers
Trusting Knowledge
The Edge of Knowledge	p. 99
Kicking Tires
Tomorrow's "Oil"	p. 104
The More We Use...?
Steel Mills and Shoes
Our Inner "Warehouse"
Just Ask
Forget Alzheimer's
The Obsoledge Trap	p. 111
Yesterday's Truths
Emily's Attic
The Quesnay Factor	p. 115
Blooper Economics
Estimates of Estimates
Piecemeal Papers
The Missing Framework
The Mistress's Doctor
Filtering Truth	p. 122
Truth on Trial
Six Filters
Consensus
Consistency
Authority
Revelation
Durability
Science
Truth Shifts
Trashing the Lab	p. 130
Razor Blades and Rights
Flip-Flop Politics
Patriarchy and Palmistry
Las Vegas as Role Model
The Eco-Missionaries
Secret Science
The Truth Managers	p. 139
Persuading the Boss
Coda: Convergence	p. 143
Tortoise Time
Once-True Analogies
Mapping the Knowable
Prosuming
The Hidden Half	p. 151
The Prosumer Economy
A Mum in a Million
The Potty Test
What Price Disintegration?
Grossly Distorted Product (GDP)
The Health Prosumers	p. 160
Betting on One Hundred?
The Panic Zone
Besieged by Breakthroughs
The Diabetes Game
Our Third Job	p. 168
Beyond the Buffet
The Supermarket Shove
The Coming Prosumer Explosion	p. 172
Guitars and Golf Bags
Rampant Consumerism?
Cookies and Simulations
Dwarfing Hollywood
Collective Prosuming
Busting the Hierarchies
More "Free Lunch"	p. 180
Teachers, Nurses and Horses
Amateurs Matter
Uncooking the Books
Down-to-Earth
Attacking Anthrax
The Music Storm	p. 187
Estonian Geeks
Prosumer Power
Baby Prosumers
Liposuction Without Surgery
The "Producivity" Hormone	p. 194
Beyond Education
Rajender's Game
Coda: Invisible Channels	p. 198
The Prosumer Impact
Unnoticed Therapy
Decadence
The Gospel of Change	p. 205
The Third Source
Teen Trash
Paul's Story
Hollywood Hedonism
One Step in the River
Implosion	p. 211
Pandemic Loneliness
Post-Kindergarten Factories
Creative Accounting
Intensive Care
The Golden Years
Politics of the Surreal
Systemic Breakdown
An Epidemic of Failure
Stars on Strike
Corroding the Wires	p. 220
FBI Time
Global Space
An Overload of Obsoledge
Complexorama	p. 225
What Bill Gates Knows
12,203 Problems
The Sepulveda Solution	p. 230
Every American Woman
Fake Transformation
Shifting Chairs
Cameras and Cops
Creating New Institutions
Innovations That Breed Innovations
Inventing the Think Tank
Coda: After Decadence	p. 240
The Values War
Extreme Extremes
Anti-Decadence
Mingling with Moguls
Inventing New Models
"Satanic Mills"
Post-Cassandra?
Capitalism's Future
Capitalism's End Game	p. 253
Cars and Cameras
The Untouchables
The Fetish of Touch
The Horse and the Song
Converting Capital	p. 259
Ranges of Risk
Democratic Doorways
Growth in Econo-Land
Flattening the Down
Impossible Markets	p. 265
Rare Money
Mass + Mass = Mass+
Flash-Markets
Personal Pricing
Approaching the Limits?
Whispered Secrets
The Virtual Twin
Running Tomorrow's Money	p. 273
The Hidden Tax
Blips on Chips
The Closing Bell
Wildcat Currency
Para-Money
The Anti-Obesity Card
Streaming Money
Pepsi Vodka
Prosumer Pay?
Poverty
The Old Future of Poverty	p. 287
Hitting the Limit
A Poverty of Strategies
Typical Japanese "Muck"
The Spillover Effect
Asia Can't Wait
Twin Tracks to Tomorrow	p. 295
India Awakened
Bangalore Central
The Greatest Generation?
Yes, but No
Cracking Poverty's Core	p. 303
Instead of Trial and Error
Bring on the Bananas
Bio-Economies
Help from the Heavens
Secret Prices
The Smartest Agronomist
Smart Dust
Bill Gates's Echo
What Worked Best Won't
Distributing Energy
Hyperagriculture
The New Tectonics
China's Next Surprise?	p. 319
Looming over the World
Accelerating Acceleration
Global Space
Mining Knowledge
Wave Politics
Three Chinas
Mercedes, Malls and Militia
Wave War
The Bloody Thread
Meet Mao II
Japan's Next Bamboo Ring	p. 332
Latte, Anyone?
Japan's Lopsided Leap
Flex-Nations
Decision Delay
No More Christmas Cakes
The Silver Wave
A Filipina or a Robot?
Awaiting the Ring
Europe's Lost Message	p. 344
The All-Time Low
The Widening Split
Speeding in Slow Motion
Yesterday's Heartland
The Lisbon Dream
Inside America	p. 354
More Wave Warfare
24 Billion Hours
Stealing the Future
The Nameless Coalition
Forces for Change
The Next Step
Outside America	p. 363
The Old Game
An "Unsordid Act"
Backlash and Bewilderment
Reversing Homogeneity
The Unseen Game of Games	p. 369
Neo-games
No Longer Human?
Tomorrow's NGOs
Religio-Economics
God on the Move
The End of Petro-power
Utopia Past
The Fragility of Power
The Nano-Now
Epilogue: The Prologue is Past	p. 380
The Nostalgia Brigade
A Prosumer Pathway?
Pessimist-in-Chief
Moon Power
Hope for the Human Race?
From Picos to Yoctos
Notes	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 456
Acknowledgments	p. 466
Index	p. 469
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