ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1982
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave
Bantam, 1982
537 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in what was originally just a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century in 1990. A new addition, Revolutionary Wealth, was published, however, in 2006 and may be considered as a major expansion of The Third Wave.

Toffler`s book describes the transition in developed countries from Industrial Age society, which he calls the `Second Wave`, to Information Age `Third Wave` society.

Contents:
pt. 1. The death of permanence:
The 800th life time
The unprepared visitor
Break with the past
The accelerated thrust
Time and change
Subterranean cities
The technological engine
Knowledge as fuel
The flow of situations
The pace of life
People of the future
Duration expectancy
The concept of transience
pt. 2. Transience:
Things; the throw away society
The paper wedding gown
The missing supermarket. The economics of impermanence
The portable playground
The modular `fun palace`
The rental revolution
Temporary needs
The fad machine
Places: the new nomads
The 3,000,000 mile club
Flamenco in Sweden
Migration to the future
Suicides and hitch hikers
The mournful movers
The homing instinct
The demise of geography
People: the modular man
The cost of involvement
The duration of human relationships. The hurry up welcome
Friendships in the future
Monday to Friday friends
Recruits and defectors
Rent a person
How to lose friends
How many friends?
Training children for turnover
Organization: the coming ad-hocracy
Catholics, cliques and coffee breaks
The organizational upheaval
The new ad-hocracy
The collapse of hierarchy
Beyond bureaucracy
Information: the kinetic image
Twiggy and the k-mesons. The Freudian wave
A blizzard of best sellers
The engineered message
Mozart on the run
The semi-literate Shakespeare
Art; cubist and kineticists
The neural investment
pt. 3. Novelty:
The scientific trajectory
The new Atlantis
Sunlight and personality
The voice of the dolphin
The biological factory
The pre-designed body
The transient organ
The cyborgs among us
The denial of change
The experience makers
The psychic cake mix. `Serving wenches` in the sky
Experiential industries
Simulated environments
Live environments
The economics of sanity
The fractured family
The mystique of motherhood
The streamlined family
Bio-parents and pro-parents
Communes and homosexual daddies
The odds against love
Temporary marriage
Marriage trajectories
The demands of freedom
pt. 4. Diversity:
The origins of overchoice
Design a mustang. Computers and classrooms
`Drag queen` movies
A surfeit of subcults
Scientist and stockbrokers
The fun specialists
The youth ghetto
Marital tribes
Hippies, incorporated
Tribal turnover
The ignoble savage
A diversity of life styles
Motorcyclist and intellectuals
Style setters and mini heroes
Life style factories
The power of style
A superabundance of selves
The free society
pt. 5. The limits of adaptability. Future shock: the physical dimension
Life and illness
Response to novelty
The adaptive reaction
Future shock: the psychological dimension
The over-stimulated individual
Bombardment of the senses
Information overload
Decision stress
Victims of future shock
The future shocked society
pt. 6. Strategies for survival:
Coping with tomorrow
Direct coping
Personal stability zones
Situational grouping
Crisis counseling. Half way houses
Enclaves of the past
Enclaves of the future
Global space pageants
Education in the future tense
The industrial era school
The new educational revolution
The organizational attack
Yesterday`s curriculum today
A diversity of data
A system of skills
The strategy of futureness
Taming technology
Technological backlash. Selecting cultural styles
Transistors and sex
A technology ombudsman
The environmental screen
The strategy of social futurism
The death of technocracy
The humanization of the planner
Time horizons
Anticipatory democracy


Sociology & Culture, Non Fiction, Psychology, History, Science, Technology, Futurology