The Third Wave

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A call for political change to meet what the author views as the impending doom of society as we know it

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvin Toffler
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Bantam Books 1981
Subjects:
Social history > 1945- Social change. Civilization, Modern > 1950-
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A collision of waves
  • Super-struggle
  • The second wave
  • The architecture of civilization
  • The invisible wedge
  • Breaking the code
  • The technicians of power
  • The hidden blueprint
  • A frenzy of nations
  • The imperial drive
  • Indust-reality
  • Code: the flash flood
  • The third wave
  • The new synthesis
  • The commanding heights
  • De-massifying the media
  • The intelligent environment
  • Beyond mass production
  • The electronic cottage
  • Families of the future
  • The corporate identity crisis
  • Decoding the new rules
  • The rise of the prosumer
  • The mental maelstrom
  • The crack-up of the nation
  • Gandhi with satellites
  • Coda: the great confluence
  • Conclusion
  • The new psycho-sphere
  • The personality of the future
  • The political mausoleum
  • Twenty-first century democracy.

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