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You start 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 using 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 earth. And once again, they offer a penetrating, coherent way to seem sensible of the seemingly senseless.
Revolutionary Wealth is about how precisely tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and exactly how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in conditions of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions from what they call our “third job”—the unnoticed work we do without purchase some of the largest corporations inside our country.
They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the “surplus complexity” inside 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 idea to reveal how many of your activities—whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, increasing our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even “mashing” music—pump “free lunch” from the “hidden” non-money economy in to the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is going to explode and compel radical changes in the manner 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.
From the Hardcover edition.
