Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

Discusses power at the edge of the 21st century. Deals with violence, wealth and knowledge and the roles they play in our lives; and discusses new paths to power opened by a world of upheaval.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvin Toffler
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Bantam Books 1990
Subjects:
Social history > 1945- Economic history > 1945- Power (Social sciences)
Table of 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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