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The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
"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.
Paperback, 560 pages
Published
May 1st 1984
by Bantam
(first published January 1st 1980)
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Mar 10, 2009
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buku yg sangat mengejutkan... dibuat pada tahun 1980-an jelas, belum datang masanya email, komputer, internet, handphone, ipod, dan ledakan penemuan lainnya yang telah mengubah wajah peradaban. tapi, bak seorang cenayang (Mama Lorentz kalah telak!!) Alvin Toffler, dg jeniusnya meramalkan bagaimana rupa peradaban manusia di masa depan (baca : coz buku ini meramalkan masa depannya puluhan tahun kedepan sesudah buku ini dibuat, artinya masa sekarang)
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This book is incredible - Alvin Toffler saw the changes of cultural, political and social upheaval and put it down on paper 30 years ago. If you didn't know this book was published in 1981, you'd think it was new... I've seen very few books able to cross the gulf of time on predictions and still be relevant as this.
The Third Wave is a great guide to the most incredible transition of the new millennium.
The Third Wave is a great guide to the most incredible transition of the new millennium.
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The first wave (Agrarian Society) lasted for thousands of years; the second wave (Industrial society) lasted for close to 300 years and now the third wave("information society")- started in 1960s in U.S.- has more or less spread across the whole globe. Even though the book is written in 1980s, most part of it is still valid today. What i really liked about it is how the author tries to interconnect seemingly unrelated events in different fields like tech, sociology, politics, environment & e...more
Светът на миналото, настоящето и бъдещето – “Третата вълна” на Алвин Тофлър
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Интересно е да се чете книга, издадена през 1980 г. и посветена до голяма степен на нашето съвремие. “Третата вълна” на Алвин Тофлър е от онези основополагащи трудове, които се цитират навсякъде, но трябва да бъдат прочетени. И доста сериозно смлени, защото сред страниците има много, много съкровища на мисълта.
http://www.knigolandia.info/2010/10/b...
Интересно е да се чете книга, издадена през 1980 г. и посветена до голяма степен на нашето съвремие. “Третата вълна” на Алвин Тофлър е от онези основополагащи трудове, които се цитират навсякъде, но трябва да бъдат прочетени. И доста сериозно смлени, защото сред страниците има много, много съкровища на мисълта.
Read many years ago. Interesting as he describes how life, culture, economy, politics--everything changes as these "waves" of progress occur. We are currently in the Third Wave--going from an industrial economy to a technical/computerized wave. He states that the change-over years are always tumultuous because you have a faction of individuals not prepared/educated to move forward. We can see where industrial cities like Detroit are having difficulties and unemployment because either these compa...more
موج سوم نوشته الوين تافلر هميشه داراي بالاترين چاپ بوده است
بين كتابهاي مديريت صنعتي بهترين رتبه كتاب را داراست
نويسنده اش با شوك آينده شهرت يافت و موج سوم هم ثابت كرد كه او مديري بي همتاست و مي تواند باشد
موج سوم بر اين مفهوم بنا شده است كه تاريخ بشر دو انقلاب را پشت سر گذاشته است انقلاب كشاورزي و انقلاب صنعتي و اكنون در آستانه سومين آن يعني انقلاب الكترونيك است وبحران جهان كنوني نا شي از اين انتقال پر تنش است
در فصل هفدهم خانواده هاي آينده را به خوبي ترسيم كرده است
و در فصل بيست و سوم بحث جالب گا...more
بين كتابهاي مديريت صنعتي بهترين رتبه كتاب را داراست
نويسنده اش با شوك آينده شهرت يافت و موج سوم هم ثابت كرد كه او مديري بي همتاست و مي تواند باشد
موج سوم بر اين مفهوم بنا شده است كه تاريخ بشر دو انقلاب را پشت سر گذاشته است انقلاب كشاورزي و انقلاب صنعتي و اكنون در آستانه سومين آن يعني انقلاب الكترونيك است وبحران جهان كنوني نا شي از اين انتقال پر تنش است
در فصل هفدهم خانواده هاي آينده را به خوبي ترسيم كرده است
و در فصل بيست و سوم بحث جالب گا...more
Again, a book written some time ago (24 years), so how does it stand up?
In one section, Toffler speaks of how the customer "will become so integrated into the production process that we find it . . . difficult to tell . . . who is the producer." So many Internet niche marketers (today’s most popular and fastest growing business model) would read this and agree. It's fascinating to see such precision in understanding a device some 20 years ago that itself is only 10 years old. Today’s customer I...more
In one section, Toffler speaks of how the customer "will become so integrated into the production process that we find it . . . difficult to tell . . . who is the producer." So many Internet niche marketers (today’s most popular and fastest growing business model) would read this and agree. It's fascinating to see such precision in understanding a device some 20 years ago that itself is only 10 years old. Today’s customer I...more
Jun 05, 2012
Joseph Weathers
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While providing quite a number of incredibly insightful thoughts on the future of technology, business and industrialism, the entire book is permeated with a distain for the past. Because civilization is moving into this "Third Wave", Toffler says that not only do we need to create new business and technology systems, but also new and "more imaginative" options to the traditional nuclear family; to make normal many "alternative" sexual lifestyles to the traditional married hetero-sexual couple;...more
In the first wave, power came from violence or force. In the second, the Industrial Revolution, power came from wealth. Today, it comes from knowledge. The battle for the future is going to be over information. Unfortunately, the book takes 500 pages to say that.
Toffler's other books are stronger and if short on time, can be read in exchange for The Third Wave. However Alvin does write a particularly touching foreword about his wife who has been his long time writing partner.
Toffler's other books are stronger and if short on time, can be read in exchange for The Third Wave. However Alvin does write a particularly touching foreword about his wife who has been his long time writing partner.
Sep 04, 2011
Faisal
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non-fiction
I read this book as part of my course at university, suffice it to say usually anything assigned to you for reading is a bore and usually you end up disliking it.
The more I read this book the more it intrigued me, I loved the clarity of vision with which trends in technology, society and human development were charted out.
Unfortunately after 10years that's all I remember looks like I will have to re read this one to refresh my memory.
The more I read this book the more it intrigued me, I loved the clarity of vision with which trends in technology, society and human development were charted out.
Unfortunately after 10years that's all I remember looks like I will have to re read this one to refresh my memory.
Tracks the development of the society based on the concept of waves, with each new wave pushing the older societies and culture aside.
First wave of change - Agricultural revolution
Second wave of change - Rise of the industrial civilisation
Third wave of change - Knowledge based society with more acceleration and single most explosive fact of our lifetimes
First wave of change - Agricultural revolution
Second wave of change - Rise of the industrial civilisation
Third wave of change - Knowledge based society with more acceleration and single most explosive fact of our lifetimes
از نگاه تافلر سه موج به ساحل زندگی بشر برخورد کرده. هر موج بر سر موج قبلی کوبیده میشه و همه پارادایم ها و اصول قبلی رو به هم میریزه
کتاب ارزشمندیه و خوندنش یه باید
کتاب ارزشمندیه و خوندنش یه باید
I read this book after the first one Future Shock. It influenced my thoughts about technology and changed my attitude when it came time to shift gears at work with regards to technology. It is a very important work and demonstrates what has happened with technology since the 70s
Incredible how in 1980 toffler saw the world we live in today and the one that lies ahead. Chapter 28's letting to the American founding fathers nearly brought me to tears with its sincerity and confronting reality of the need for a 21st century constitution. A must read
I am still reading the chapters on the second wave. I have never seen anyone dissect history so clearly and make it suh interesting reading. Since this book was written some 20+ years ago I cannot wait to see if some of his predictions have come true.
I have something of a soft spot for out-of-date futurology, and this book scratches that itch nicely.
If you ignore the dates, its not terribly bad at prediction. A lot of things that he thought were coming in the 80s with interactive television and fax machines didn't happen until the internet, but overall he didn't do a terrible job.
It is also, however, a fabulous example of things that people have been predicting for 60 years that are still being predicted today. There's a number of predictio...more
If you ignore the dates, its not terribly bad at prediction. A lot of things that he thought were coming in the 80s with interactive television and fax machines didn't happen until the internet, but overall he didn't do a terrible job.
It is also, however, a fabulous example of things that people have been predicting for 60 years that are still being predicted today. There's a number of predictio...more
Another read for those who are interested in the economy. I've read it about three times now (one for every wave... hardy-har-har!) and it never ceases to amaze me how on-point Alvin is with his predictions based off of past economic trends.
U must read this b4 having or telling or discussing any Opinion about anything around your world!
it gives u a glass to see!
best sociology book ever!
if u r by any chance a part of the world between 1960-2060
u Have 2 read these aalvin tofler series!
1970...future shock
smthing is gonna change,it will change in the fastest way it could!
here he discuss the effect that the rate may cause,& leave
the tehem of the "change" 4 his next book to discuss!
1980...third wave
he define us the chaneg we...more
it gives u a glass to see!
best sociology book ever!
if u r by any chance a part of the world between 1960-2060
u Have 2 read these aalvin tofler series!
1970...future shock
smthing is gonna change,it will change in the fastest way it could!
here he discuss the effect that the rate may cause,& leave
the tehem of the "change" 4 his next book to discuss!
1980...third wave
he define us the chaneg we...more
Apr 03, 2013
Eddy Allen
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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.
I read it in the early 90s. So much of it has proven to be true. I haven't revisited it but I'm sure it would be interested the work of professionals who call themselves 'futurists'.
Aug 25, 2010
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I read this book in 1983 just by accident and it is THE greatest book that I have ever read. How close was Toffler in understanding history in such a grand sweep.
I read this book in 1982. I was young. After checking out these reviews I see the need to pick it up again to read it through the lens of age and societal change.
In Third Wave, Toffler describes the major shifts facing the world since the 1970s. It's amazing that this book reads almost as if it were written in 2010 rather than 1980! Some reviews here frame this book as predictive. I read it more as a definition of paradigms, and as outlining a context in which to frame the world around us. Some political players may have changed, and certainly technology has changed, but the context of Toffler's "third wave" in the economic sociopolitical sense is as sou...more
This is the current society we're living in as the author described in the book. The descriptive collision of ideas is amazing!
Disfruté mucho este libro cuando era adolescente. Años después volví a releerlo y me pareció un fiasco. Cosas que pasan.
Although it was published in 1980 before home computers, e-mail, and the internet, Mr. Toffler helps make sense of the transitions we faced moving from the First Wave (Agricultural Age) to the Second Wave (Industrial Age) and now as we move into the Third Wave (Information Age). He covers topics as broad as technology, politics and gender roles and how each of these is impacted by the Third Wave.
There are entire chapters that I disagree with, such as reasons given for the disintegration of the...more
There are entire chapters that I disagree with, such as reasons given for the disintegration of the...more
I love reading predictions for the future written decades ago. They are always *so* wrong. But that's not the point. The point is that books like this are reminders that current predictions about the future will also prove to be wildly wrong, so we shouldn't pay much attention to them. Global warming, Eurabia, China dominating the world...yeah, yeah. Talk to the hand.
this great scholarly book was able to change my point of view about the world and humans...
A book from a writer whose books I have been meaning to read for a dreadfully long time...
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is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload.
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