Revolutionary wealth
by Alvin Toffler · first published 2006
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Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write 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 earlier work, they coined the word "p
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"Revolutionary Wealth", by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.
on “Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?” ↗…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 such as patreon, bitcoin and the Gig economy. I recommend all of these books as they outline a framework for understanding the nature…
on “Future Shock Documentary (1972) [video]” ↗This post kind of reminds me of a book I read about 10 years ago. "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin Toffler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Wealth AFAICR in this book, the third revolution is referred to as "The revolution of knowledge" and I think it better describes how and…
on “The Software Revolution” ↗…recognized a couple of them I didn't see anyone worth mentioning. Toffler's works were mostly dated after the mid 2000's, but predicted the consumer as producer (pro-sumer) culture we live in today and Revolutionary Wealth described how we would make a living with services like Patreon and GoFundMe in such a society. I recommend everyone read The Third Wave. It provides great historical context for the present machinations…
on “Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87” ↗…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 as YouTube, Kickstarter and Patreon they are the future, and traditional businesses can only survive…
on “Disney's movie dominance has a dark side, independent theatre warns” ↗