Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler
Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler
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Revolutionary Wealth
How it will be created and how it will change our lives

Author: Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

Narrator: Melissa Edris

Unabridged: 16 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/25/2006


Synopsis

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here 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 our country. They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the “surplus complexity” in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence. In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word “prosumer” for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities—whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even “mashing” music—pump “free lunch” from the “hidden” non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth. Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about—and preparing for—their future.

About The Author

Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) was an American writer and futurist whose list of bestselling books includes Future Shock, The Third Wave, and Powershift. He was a cofounder of Toffler Associates, a consulting firm for companies and governments worldwide on advances in economics, technology, and social change. In France, where his work won the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize), Alvin was named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Heidi Toffler is a writer and strategic adviser, best known for her authorial collaborations with her late husband, Alvin. Their books include The Third Wave, Powershift, The Culture Consumers, War and Anti-War, Creating a New Civilization, and Revolutionary Wealth. She holds multiple honorary doctorates in law and letters and has been awarded the medal of the President of the Italian Republic for her contributions to social thought.Melissa Edris has been in the voice-over business for more than ten years. Her voice can be heard on numerous television and radio commercials as well as on narration projects, promos, and audiobooks, including Revolutionary Wealth and The Heart of a Soldier.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on April 02, 2016

I was a huge fan of the Toffler’s “The Third Wave”, which came out when I was in high school. Given its timing and its message, it was one of the books that set the direction of my education and career, and one of the few I’ve read multiple times. Now I read their “Revolutionary Wealth” thinking, or......more

Goodreads review by Khalid on August 30, 2011

Astonishing. Can anyone tell you about the future? Maybe Alvin Toffler, the author, can do. we have begun the knowledge-based era as versus to industrial era which, the later, was based entirely on materials. the new era has different terms when it speaks of wealth. how the [NEW] wealth is created a......more

Goodreads review by TK on April 02, 2007

The Plow, the Assembly Line, the Computer These are the three waves we have seen so far and the latter will change everything. If you liked Future Shock, The Third Wave, Powershift, War and Anti-war, you will like this. Do not read this book if you are stuck in the industial age of rival goods. It wil......more

Goodreads review by Rishi on July 15, 2018

A book that really opens your eyes to how the relation of money with time and effort has changed and how to be prepared for a world which is increasingly moving at a faster pace......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro on June 06, 2022

I remember being blown away as an undergraduate in the 1970s by popular sociological and futurist books on socio-technological challenges about the future such as Alvin Toffler's Future Shock (1970) and The Third Wave, (1980), David Riesmann (The Lonely Crowd, 1950), Vance Packard's The Hidden Persu......more


Quotes

"In Future Shock, the Tofflers warned that many people 'will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time. For them, the future will have arrived too soon.' These days, from Baghdad to Bangalore to Boston, it seems more likely that people worry that the future will arrive too late. That's no small change, and it's one on which the Tofflers have been shining a light for years." --The New York Times Book Review"Alvin and Heidi Toffler... show no signs of losing touch with the bleeding edge or slowing down. Their book is loaded with bits of intelligence..." --USA Today"Revolutionary Wealth... will act as a valuable guideline for the future of our world. The success of Korea as an IT powerhouse and leader in the new age of knowledge-based economy can be attributed to the lessons I learned through... books such as The Third Wave and Future Shock." --Kim Dae-jung, former president of South Korea"Brilliant, incisive and seminal, this book will be talked about for years to come. Highly recommended." --Library Journal"Revolutionary Wealth brings an exciting new dimension to the Tofflers' body of work. As we struggle to navigate the complexities of the rapidly changing wealth system that confronts us all, it provides an invaluable roadmap to our financial future." --Newt Gingrich