Following Future Shock LJ 770 and The Third Wave LJ
4180, this final volume of Toffler''s trilogy on revolutionary
change argues that the control of knowledge has become the
principal means to create wealth and power. Aided by the widespread
use of computers and other communications technologies, this
"powershift," Toffler predicts, will dramatically alter the world''s
political balance. The superpowers will no longer dominate, since
massive military power and control of natural resources
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A PERSONAL PREFACE
PART ONE: THE NEW MEANING OF POWER
1 THE POWERSHIFT ERA
The End of Empire
God-in-a-White-Coat
Bombarded by the Future
The Making of a Shabby Gentility
2 MUSCLE, MONEY, AND MIND
High-Quality Power
One Million Inferences
Facts, Lies, and Truth
The Democratic Difference
PART TWO: LIFE IN THE SUPER-SYMBOLIC ECONOMY
3 BEYOND THE AGE OF GLITZ
The Business Commandos
Dale Carnegie and Attila the Hun
The Consultant''s Hidden Mission
4 FORCE: THE YAKUZA COMPONENT
Blood and Snow-Money
On Zeks and Goons
A Monopoly of Force
The Hidden Gun
The Trajectory of Power
5 WEALTH: MORGAN, MILKEN . .. AND AFTER
The X-Shaped Desk
Milken versus Morgan
Opening the Gates
The Counterattack
Tampons and Car Rentals
The Post-Wall Street Era
The Zigzag of Power
The Looming Fight for Global Control
6 KNOWLEDGE: A WEALTH OF SYMBOLS
Inside the Skull
An Epitaph for Paper
Designer Currencies and Para-Money
Power Failures
21 st-Century Money
7 MATERIAL-ISM0!
The New Meaning of Joblessness
The Spectrum of Mind-Work
Lowbrows versus Highbrows
Lowbrow Ideology
Highbrow Ideology
8 THE ULTIMATE SUBSTITUTE
The Alchemy of Information
Knowledge versus Capital
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