Future Shock

Author : Alvin Toffler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593159767

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Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.

Author : Elizabeth Briggs
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780807526835

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Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs Pdf

2017 Westchester Fiction Award Elena Martinez has hidden her eidetic memory all her life—or so she thinks. When powerful tech giant Aether Corporation selects her for a top-secret project, she can't say no. All she has to do is participate in a trip to the future to bring back data, and she'll be set for life. Elena joins a team of four other teens with special skills, including Adam, a science prodigy with his own reason for being there. But when the time travelers arrive thirty years in the future, something goes wrong and they break the only rule they were given: do not look into their own fates. Now they have twenty-four hours to get back to the present and find a way to stop a seemingly inevitable future from unfolding. With time running out and deadly secrets uncovered, Elena must use her eidetic memory, street smarts, and a growing trust in Adam to save her new friends and herself.

Author : Ray Kurzweil,George Gilder,Martin Rees,Newt Gingrich,Alan Kay,David Brin,Po Bronson
Publisher : Abundant World Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : 0999736442

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After Shock by Ray Kurzweil,George Gilder,Martin Rees,Newt Gingrich,Alan Kay,David Brin,Po Bronson Pdf

After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, Future Shock . The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future--through the very unique lenses of more than 100 of the world's foremost futurists, including David Brin, Po Bronson, Sanjiv Chopra, George Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Alan Kay, Ray Kurzweil, Jane McGonigal, Lord Martin Rees, Byron Reese, and many other luminaries.

Author : Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781617230103

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Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff Pdf

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.

Author : Peter David
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302499334

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Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 7 by Peter David Pdf

Collects Spider-Man 2099 (2015) #22-25, Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man (1995). With the help of Sonny Frisco, the Iron Man of 2099, Miguel has fi nally developed a plan to prevent the disaster that left his future timeline in ruins! If all goes well, Spidey's crusade against The Fist will fi nally come to an end, and the world of 2099 will be saved. Unfortunately, the entire plan hinges on Electro's cooperation...and if he's not in a helpful mood, Miguel and Sonny are going to find themselves in for one serious shock! Plus, look back at Spider-Man 2099's first trip to the present day, even as Peter Parker finds himself in Miguel's far-flung future! Can the wall-crawlers of two eras uncover the clues to their mutual predicaments and unite to restore history?

Author : Emilio Iodice
Publisher : Anclote Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0929652371

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Future Shock 2. 0 by Emilio Iodice Pdf

This is a work of fiction-based on fact! It is a wakeup call. The events, the stories and human drama depicted in these pages may not happen in 2020, but they will happen in our lifetime if we continue on our current course. The world is moving toward an era where we will have lost control of our future. Environmental, political, economic and social upheavals are drawing together to form a synergy of challenges that seem impossible to resolve. Using an innovative multimedia format, this book explains that even though we know the problems and solutions, we face a lack of wise, ethical, experienced, courageous and compassionate leadership able to confront what we must collectively deal with on this planet. Indeed, the future is not up to our established institutions, it's up to YOU! Don't just read this book- change the world!

Author : Alvin Toffler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0920057365

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Previews and Premises by Alvin Toffler Pdf

A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change.

Author : Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler
Publisher : Currency
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385522076

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Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler Pdf

Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.

Author : Alvin Toffler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593159774

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Powershift by Alvin Toffler Pdf

Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a stunning vision of the future that will change your life. In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit—the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones, politics and personal life. The very nature of power is changing under our eyes. Powershift maps the “info-wars” of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise—not between East and West or North and South, but between the “fast” and the “slow.” In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read. Praise for Powershift “[A] sweeping synthesis . . . by placing the accelerated changes of our current information age in the larger perspective of history, Mr. Toffler helps us to face the future with less wariness and more understanding.”—The New York Times Book Review “An insightful guide to a bewildering present and a frightening future . . . thought-provoking on every page.”—Newsday

Author : Alvin Toffler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593159781

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The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler Pdf

From the author of Future Shock, a striking way out of today’s despair . . . a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials. The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy. Praise for The Third Wave “Magnificent . . . an astonishing array of information.”—The Washington Post “Imperishably fresh.”—Business Week “Will mesmerize readers, and rightly so.”—Vogue “Alvin Toffler . . . has written another blockbuster . . . a powerful book.”—The Guardian “Fresh ideas, clearly explained. . . . Toffler has proven again that he is a master.”—United Press International “Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions and myths.”—Associated Press “Once you have walked into his version of the future, you may decide never again to whitewash some of the built-in frailties of the real present.”—Financial Post “Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic . . . will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of [today’s] puzzling social changes.”—The Globe & Mail “A detailed breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. . . . Toffler’s vision of a democratic, self-sustaining utopia is a brave alternative to recent grim warnings.”—Cosmopolitan

Author : Gabriel Gorodetsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135201814

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Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991 by Gabriel Gorodetsky Pdf

A comprehensive assessment of Soviet relations with the West, set in the context of the emergence of a new Russia. This volume anlayzes the formulation of foreign policy during the period from the first decade of the Bolshevik Revolution, through the gradual erosion of ideological differences.

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : 2000 AD
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1907992529

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The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks by Alan Moore Pdf

The entire run of short stories created for 2000 AD by the most celebrated author in comics history, Alan Moore. Each one is like a small episode of the Twilight Zone. For the Future Shocks series of short stories with a twist ending, Alan Moore created some of his most exciting, memorable and explicitly entertaining work. Also featured in this outstanding collection are his short Time Twister tales - including the famous and poignant story The Reversible Man where one man's life is told in reverse - Moore's one-off stories, and his short Abelard Snazz series.

Author : Elizabeth Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948456532

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Future Threat by Elizabeth Briggs Pdf

Author : Lala Albert,William Cardini,Marine Blandin,Jason Murphy,Victor Kerlow,Alex Degen,Vincent Giard,Pat Aulisio,Keren Katz,Aleks Sennwald,Pete Toms,Sungyoon Choi,Tory Sica,Sophia Foster-Dimino,Ben Urkowitz,Anuj Shrestha
Publisher : Retrofit Comics
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1940398479

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Future Shock Zero by Lala Albert,William Cardini,Marine Blandin,Jason Murphy,Victor Kerlow,Alex Degen,Vincent Giard,Pat Aulisio,Keren Katz,Aleks Sennwald,Pete Toms,Sungyoon Choi,Tory Sica,Sophia Foster-Dimino,Ben Urkowitz,Anuj Shrestha Pdf

Future Shock Zero is a monumental comix anthology focusing loosely around the watchwords of SCI FI ASTRO PLUS. It is packed to the gills with talent from the razor's edge of the thunderground. Your eyes will be bathed in the soothing glow of full color for all 136 pages of the spectacle contained within. Contributors: LALA ALBERT WILLIAM CARDINI MARINE BLANDIN JASON MURPHY VICTOR KERLOW ALEX DEGEN VINCENT GIARD PAT AULISIO KEREN KATZ ALEKS SENNWALD PETE TOMS SUNGYOON CHOI TORY SICA SOPHIA FOSTER-DIMINO BEN URKOWITZ ANUJ SHRESTHA JOSH BURGGRAF cover by JORDAN SPEER

Author : Elizabeth Briggs
Publisher : Aw Teen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0807526878

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Future Lost by Elizabeth Briggs Pdf

"Elena Martinez must return to the future one last time to save the person she cares about most and prevent the end of the world"--