The Third Wave

By Alvin Toffler

Book Overview

Third wave keeps multidimensional perspectives Its for every human being, to read: students, teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers,sociologist, Economist,IT managers, sales personnels, and whosever can read and understand this Bible.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688035973
• ISBN13: 9780688035976
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Right on the money, 30 years ago

If you are looking for descriptions of large-scale shifts in world economies and cultures, this book has it. Toffler was so far ahead in his thinking and in his grasp of the changing world order that it's staggering. Thirty years later and many of the concepts he outlined are just now taking shape. There is a "quotable" in every single paragraph. Read it.

Good book

Here are my notes The government was the great accelerator. Because of its coercive power and tax revenues, it could do things that private enterprise could not afford to undertake. Government could hot up the industrialization process by stepping in to fill emerging gaps in the system - before it became possible or profitable for private companies to do so. Government could perform anticipatory integration. By setting up...

A pivotal book by a true scientific genius

When I started this book, I could not put it down before I finished it. For a month after that, I could not think of anything else but what I have read, and for the next twenty years I had countless occasions to see that the book was profoundly right. The book was written for a lay reader, simple and fun to read, and yet, I am sure that it will be seen as one of the most influential science books of the 20th century. History...

Packed with Knowledge!

Perhaps the reason that Alvin Toffler's classic book feels so relevant some 25 years after its initial publication is the fact that he wrote it in a time which, in retrospect, was not so different from our own: The world was trembling before the threat of terrorism embodied, in Toffler's age, by Iranian terrorists, and radical new technologies, in the form of powerful and increasingly affordable computers, were drastically...

An Explanation of the "Computer Revolution"

This book attempts to explain the both the nature and the process of the technological revolution that has transformed the world's social and economic systems. To quote Newt Gingrich, US Speaker of the House of Representatives, "Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framework of a dynamic, exciting future... The Tofflers correctly understand the development and...