Alvin Toffler was an American writer and futurist, renowned for his examinations of the digital and communications revolutions, and the concept of technological singularity. His early work explored the profound impact of technology, including phenomena like information overload. Toffler's insights into societal and corporate shifts earned him recognition as a highly influential voice among business leaders and a prominent global futurologist.
Hoe de nieuwe welvaart onze levens gaat veranderen / druk 1
Toekomstvisie op de economische ontwikkeling, met als centraal thema de ontwikkeling van de prosumenten, die producent en consument tegelijk zijn.
Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.
Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work on the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems, makes his ideas accessible to a wide audience in this book, which has engendered massive debate in Europe and America.
Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World
This volume looks at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment; how they can learn to adapt to change and improve their performance; and how they should be "managed", if at all.
Describes the forces that are shaping the future, discusses changes in family life, business, technology, culture, and values, and looks at the state of democracy in the next century
Deutsche Ausgabe des US-Bestsellers "War and Anti-War"
Citing the millions of lives that have been lost during Cold War conflict, a study predicts where and how future wars will be fought and present a paradigm for peace through technology, communication, and human innovation. Reprint.
Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
In Powershift, Alvin Toffler brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a stunning vision of the future that will change your life.In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit - the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones, politics and personal life. The very nature of power is changing under your eyes.
Dall'organizzazione rigida di tipo industriale a una nuova duttilità adeguata alle sfide dell'era tecnologica
Savoir, richesse et violence à la veille du XXIe siècle
From the world-renowned author of the national bestsellers Future Shock and The Third Wave comes the culmination of a 25-year effort to map the astounding changes propelling modern man into the 21st century. Toffler provides the insight the reader needs to survive and prosper in the tumultuous years ahead.
A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change.
The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy.
Der "Zukunftsschock" befasst sich mit den rasanten Veränderungen unserer Welt und deren Auswirkungen auf den Menschen. Es thematisiert das Anpassungsvermögen von Individuen und Gesellschaften an die Zukunft sowie den Schock, den Unvorbereitete erleben, wenn diese Zukunft zur Gegenwart wird. Während oft von einer Erziehung für die Zukunft gesprochen wird, bleibt unklar, wie der Weg in Richtung 2000 tatsächlich zu bewältigen ist. Viele Werke konzentrieren sich lediglich auf technische Aspekte, doch dieses Buch beantwortet die drängende Frage, wie Einzelne den schnellen Wandel ihrer Umwelt und Lebensweise geistig und physisch bewältigen können. Es beleuchtet persönliche Lebensbereiche wie zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen, neue Formen von Freundschaft und Familie sowie den Einfluss von "Erlebnismachern" und Lebensstilfabriken. Die behandelten Themen sind keine ferne Zukunft, sondern bereits erkennbare Realitäten, die unseren Alltag prägen werden. Das Buch warnt eindringlich vor der Gefahr, dem Zukunftsschock zu erliegen, zeigt jedoch auch Wege auf, wie man durch bewusste Anpassung die Zukunft aktiv mitgestalten kann. Alvin Toffler gilt als einer der führenden Gesellschaftsfuturologen und hat in renommierten Zeitschriften sowie als Gastprofessor gewirkt.
Future Shock is the disease of change. Its symptoms are already here. Future Shock tells what happens to people overwhelmed by too rapid change. Future Shock looks at the human side of tomorrow. Brilliantly disturbing, it analyses the new and dangerous society now emerging and shows how to come to terms with the future.
