Alvin Toffler è stato uno scrittore e futurista americano, noto per i suoi scritti sulla rivoluzione digitale, la rivoluzione delle comunicazioni e la singolarità tecnologica. Il suo lavoro iniziale si concentrò sulla tecnologia e sul suo impatto, come il sovraccarico di informazioni. Toffler è stato definito una delle voci più influenti tra i leader aziendali e il "futurologo più famoso del mondo".
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.
Tretia vlna prináša so sebou úplne nový spôsob života, založený na diverzifikovaných obnoviteľných zdrojoch energie; na spôsoboch výroby, ktoré likvidujú väčšinu starých montážnych liniek; na nových, nenukleárnych rodinách; na novej inštitúcií, ktorá by sa mohla nazývať "elektronickou chatou" a na zásadne zmenených školách a firmách budúcnosti. V takto roztrojenom svete sektor Prvej vlny predstavuje poľnohospodárske a surovinové zdroje, sektor Druhej vlny poskytuje lacnú prácu a zabezpečuje masovú výrobu, a rýchlo rastúci sektor Tretej vlny si vytvára dominanciu, založenú na nových spôsoboch tvorby a využívania znalostí. Krajiny Tretej vlny predávajú svetu informácie a inovácie, manažment, kultúru i pop-kultúru, špičkové technológie, software, vzdelanie, výchovu, lekársku starostlivosť, finančné a iné služby. Jednou z týchto služieb sa možno ukáže byť vojenská ochrana, založená na velení dokonalejším silám Tretej vlny.
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.
Dall'organizzazione rigida di tipo industriale a una nuova duttilità adeguata alle sfide dell'era tecnologica
A study of power in the 1990s and beyond traces the shifting global power structures and describes how the very definition of power has changed in modern times
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.
Third wave keeps multidimensional perspectives Its for every human being, to read: students, teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers,sociologist, Economist,IT managers, sales personnels, and whosever can read and understand this Bible.
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.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” — The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
