Powershift :knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century /Alvin Toffler.
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New York :
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Bantam Books,
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1990.
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xxii, 585 p. ;25 cm.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-506) and index.
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The powershift era -- Muscle, money, and mind -- Beyond the age of glitz -- Force : the Yakuza component -- Wealth : Morgan, Milken-- and after -- Knowledge : a wealth of symbols -- Material-ismo! -- The ultimate substitute -- The checkout battle -- Extra-intelligence -- Net power -- The widening war -- The executive thought police -- Total information war -- The cubbyhole crash -- The flex-firm -- Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars -- The autonomous employee -- The power-mosaic -- CODA : the new system for wealth creation -- The decisive decades -- The invisible party -- Info-tactics -- Meta-tactics -- A market for spies -- The info-agenda -- The image makers -- Subversive media -- The "screenie" generation -- CODA : yearnings for a new dark age -- The global "K-factor" -- The fast and the slow -- Socialism's collision with the future -- The power of balance -- Triads : Tokyo-- Berlin-- Washington -- The global gladiators -- CODA : freedom, order, and chance.