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Powershift : [electronic resource] knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century / Alvin Toffler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books, 1991, c1990.Edition: Bantam paperback edDescription: xxii, 611 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0553292153 :
  • 9780553292152
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4 20
LOC classification:
  • HN17.5 .T6417 1990
Other classification:
  • 71.41
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-501) 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.

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