knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century Toffler, Alvin 1928-2016 creator text bibliography nyu New York Bantam Books 1990 monographic eng

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xxii, 585 pages ; 25 cm. 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 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. Alvin Toffler. Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-506) and index. Social history 1945- Historia social 1945- Economic history 1945- Historia económica 1945- Power (Social sciences) Poder (Ciencias sociales) Social change Cambio social Colección René Villarreal (CRV) HN 17.5 T644p 1990 303.4 0553057766 9780553057768 90001068 DLC 900622 20250606135341.0 579020 eng