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Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives
Written by Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler
Narrated by Laura Dean and Kevin Gray
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Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today's high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.
Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here 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 our country.
They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the "surplus complexity" in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence.
In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities-whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even "mashing" music-pump "free lunch" from the "hidden" non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth.
Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about-and preparing for-their future.
From the Hardcover edition.
Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here 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 our country.
They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the "surplus complexity" in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence.
In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities-whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even "mashing" music-pump "free lunch" from the "hidden" non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth.
Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about-and preparing for-their future.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Reviews for Revolutionary Wealth
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5All very good, except I have some caveats with the two basic premisis ( ' deep fundamentals ' the the knowlege economy < maybe not wrong, but too vauge > )
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The most signficant part of this book, for me, was the concept of wealth systems. The Tofflers characterize human history as falling into three major wealth systems: Agricultural, Industrial and Digital. With this clarity, it is possible to understand many of the struggles we have today as we change wealth systems. Likewise, we can see more clearly the difficulties in the movement from Agriculture to Industry. This is particularly interesting in light of education, because, as the Tofflers point out, the education system develops to support the needs of the larger wealth system. With these distinctions we can better understand the various embedded approaches within our education system and make more judicious decisions about how to move forward.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I 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 is optimistic look at the future taking into account all the horrors that can happen or be avoided.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Revolutionary Wealth discusses the wealth revolution sweeping the planet. How it is be created. Who receives it. The Tofflers argue it is not about money. Industrial age economics is of little use in understanding it.Stringing together concepts as diverse as education, blogging, rearing of children, Hollywood and China, the authors argue that the unnoticed and largely, unpaid, work we do now without pay will flow forth future floods of income streams.For most, thoughts of the future carry perils. Yet, they hold no terror for Alvin and Heidi Toffler. As the world's most famous prognosticators, they have make a fine living from predicting the future.Good futurology is the art of telling a good story. The story must be new. It must be persuasive. It needs to be plausible. It helps if it is provocative. Revolutionary Wealth is all of that. Yet, some inner voice warns the Pointed Pundit, however, not to quit my day job anticipating a big pay-off from my hobbies. Penned by the Pointed PunditAugust 18, 20069:31:37 AM