Future Shock

Author : Alvin Toffler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593159470
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Shock written by Alvin Toffler and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0807526835
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Shock written by Elizabeth Briggs and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Abundant World Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780999736449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Shock written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Abundant World Institute. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1617230103
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Present Shock written by Douglas Rushkoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gabriel Gorodetsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135201811
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991 written by Gabriel Gorodetsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Briggs
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807526886
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Lost written by Elizabeth Briggs and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been a year since Elena Martinez and her boyfriend Adam first got involved with Aether Corporation, and they’re trying to move on with their lives. But when Adam goes missing, Elena realizes that he’s done the unthinkable: he went to Aether for help developing his cure for cancer. Adam betrayed her trust and has traveled into the future, but he didn’t come back when he was supposed to. Desperate to find him, Elena decides to risk future shock, and time travels one more time. This future is nothing like they’ve seen before. Someone has weaponized Adam’s cure and created a dangerous pandemic, leading to the destruction of civilization. If Elena can’t find Adam and stop this, everyone is at risk. And someone will do anything to keep her from succeeding.

Author : Emilio Iodice
Publisher : Anclote Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929652375
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Shock 2. 0 written by Emilio Iodice and published by Anclote Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780920057360
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Previews and Premises written by Alvin Toffler and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 038552207X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Wealth written by Alvin Toffler and published by Currency. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter David
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302499335
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 7 written by Peter David and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?