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• alanwatts · May 9, 2016 · Recommends

  For anyone interested in this shift in power, check out futurist Alvin Toffler's Powershift. His thesis is that the pinnacle of power throughout time as technology has evolved has shifted from brute strength, to money in the industrial age, and now finally to information in the post-industrial…

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• JakeAl · Jun 30, 2016 · Recommends

  …in such a society. I recommend everyone read The Third Wave. It provides great historical context for the present machinations of society, the media, and the political machine controlling the masses. Powershift discuss the shift of power to the masses and is also good if you like the idea of the death of the establishment. Other people that come to mind are Nicholas Carr, Douglas Rushkoff, and Ray Kurzweil.

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• JakeAl · Sep 24, 2018 · Mentions

  …dictated by the major waves of tech evolution since the dawn of man. The Third Wave outlines the waves of history, Future Shock is about the friction of assimilating to rapidly changing tech and culture, Powershift is about the shift in power from a top down system to a producer-consumer system due to decentralization and Revolutionary Wealth is about the revolution where new business and economic models emerge…

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• banads · Jun 19, 2020 · Mentions

  It's silly to think money is literally the only form of power and persuasion. As Alvin Toffler wrote in Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century, and as evidenced by GOOG and FB, information and attention are the new money. >Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump by 2x in the 2016…

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• jamespitts · Jul 23, 2010 · Mentions

  …saved the file to my desktop, modified the file, and opened the file back up in my browser. Of course, I was (very luckily) ready for what I saw; I had been doing graphic design at the time and had read Powershift and Neuromancer :)

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• mwfunk · Jul 6, 2016 · Mentions

  At least read Future Shock, IIRC it's a pretty fast read and very focused/concise compared to his followups. The later books (Third Wave and Powershift) were more about taking the fundamentals from Future Shock and extrapolating how they might affect the world.

  on “Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch” ↗
• JakeAl · Jul 20, 2018 · Mentions

  …technology and it's impact on society; In Future Shock he talks about the growing pains as technology enables the individual to do things the group (government, education, business) could only do before; In Powershift he discusses the shift in power from those at the top to the individual; In Revolutionary Wealth he discusses the new producer-consumer business models. If you look at social media and businesses such…

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• markgoho · Dec 31, 2024 · Mentions

  the greatest Futurist of our time was Alfred Toffler cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler His books, Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990) represent peak prediction literature based on a philosophy that since 1950 we've entered the Third Wave (first wave being neolithic => agriculture, second being agriculture => industrial, third…

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