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Title details for Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler - Available

Revolutionary Wealth

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

by Alvin Toffler
Heidi Toffler
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Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our “third job”—the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the “surplus complexity” in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence. In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word “prosumer” for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities—whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even “mashing” music—pump “free lunch” from the “hidden” non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth. Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about—and preparing for—their future.

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  • Release date

    April 25, 2006

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      • ISBN: 9781415953556
      • File size: 469868 KB
      • Duration: 16:18:53

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Part history lesson, part prognostication, the Tofflers' book reviews the past and teaches the lessons of the future. Wealth is not just money; it is information, time, and resources. And wealth is the key to the revolutionary changes our world is undergoing; those who control wealth will control the future. Reading such ominous history and predictions could easily be didactic, but Melissa Edris reads like a kind and reflective teacher, providing a tone that matches the Tofflers' message. Many difficult lessons and concepts are densely packed, but Edris's pacing and calm demeanor engage the listener and help to send home the authors' message. D.L.M. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      The Tofflers' books are always fascinating, sweeping as they do across history and geography, throwing facts and insights this way and that, and preventing comfort with any particular worldview. They say wealth is created differently in the Digital Age and that society's institutions--families, businesses, banks, schools, the media-- adapt to wealth opportunities at vastly different speeds. Casual listeners might have to strain at first to hear the provocative central idea, but once they adjust to the density of the information, the powerhouse thinking and importance of this lesson will click into place. The readers are outstanding, with Kevin Gray sounding especially connected to the material. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 27, 2006
      This latest futurist forecast by the Tofflers, the husband-and-wife authors of Future Shock
      , anxiously surveys hundreds of technological, economic and social developments, including globalization, the rise of China, the decay of Europe, the decline of nuclear families, kids today, satellites, genetic engineering, alternative energy sources, frequent-flyer miles, the Internet and the rise of a new economic group, "prosumers" (those who create goods and services "for own use or satisfaction, rather than for sale or exchange"). Above all, the authors note the ever-accelerating speed and transience of all things such that nanoseconds are now too slow and will be replaced by even zippier "zeptoseconds." The Tofflers try, none too incisively, to order the chaos by invoking the "deep fundamentals" of time, space and the cutting-edge "knowledge economy" that is fast outdistancing obsolete industrial-era government institutions. The Tofflers' mantra of "revolutionary wealth" implies that there's money to be made from the maelstrom, but their specific prognostications—the "explosion" of a nonmonetary "prosumer" economy of family care, hobbies and volunteerism; embedded "pinky chips" combining ID and credit cards; the comeback of barter—seem underwhelming or unlikely. 200,000 first printing

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