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Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century /

Toffler, Alvin.

Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century / Alvin Toffler. - New York : Bantam Books, 1990. - 585 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-506) 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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Economic history--1945-
Power (Social sciences)
Social change.
Social history--1945-

HN17.5 / .T6417 1990