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Sto caricando le informazioni... Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Livesdi Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Alvin Toffler (and now his wife, Heidi who is to be understood as partner for all his works) is a world-famous thinker, management guru and prolific writer, so no certificate of excellence is required from casual readers like me. This is one of his more recent works, and hence less dated; some of his warnings are spot-on, such as new viral epidemics and war. Who would have expected such a devastating clash of titans in the 21st century in, of all places, Europe? Apart from such prognostications, the larger theme of this work is the change in economies and livelihoods with the development of computing, internet and the world-wide web, the winner-takes-all nature of online commerce, and the demise of traditional 9 to 5 jobs and the growth of the new knowledge economy. Every page and paragraph is filled with insights and ideas, making this one of the richest works in sheer fresh insight and analytical content I have read in a long while. This has definitely spurred me to revisit some of his other works, such as 'The Third Wave', although these may be a little dated now. ( ) I am ambivalent about this book. Some interesting points similar to reading the web or a magazine, however not sure what to do with it. The information was coming so fast at times it was hard to digest. Really liked their epilogue which was an optimistic look at the future taking into account all the horrors that could happen or be avoided. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write 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 earlier work, they coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume what they themselves produce. Here they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities--parenting, volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council--pump "free lunch" from the "hidden" non-money economy into the money economy that economists track.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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