Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives
Alvin Toffler · Heidi Toffler
Apr 2006 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Melissa Edris
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Starting 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 with 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 planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our “third job”—the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the “surplus complexity” in 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 concept to reveal how many of our activities—whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even “mashing” music—pump “free lunch” from the “hidden” non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way 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.
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Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) was an American writer and futurist whose list of bestselling books includes Future Shock, The Third Wave, and Powershift. He was a cofounder of Toffler Associates, a consulting firm for companies and governments worldwide on advances in economics, technology, and social change. In France, where his work won the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize), Alvin was named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Heidi Toffler is a writer and strategic adviser, best known for her authorial collaborations with her late husband, Alvin. Their books include The Third Wave, Powershift, The Culture Consumers, War and Anti-War, Creating a New Civilization, and Revolutionary Wealth. She holds multiple honorary doctorates in law and letters and has been awarded the medal of the President of the Italian Republic for her contributions to social thought.
Melissa Edris has been in the voice-over business for more than ten years. Her voice can be heard on numerous television and radio commercials as well as on narration projects, promos, and audiobooks, including Revolutionary Wealth and The Heart of a Soldier.
Heidi Toffler is a writer and strategic adviser, best known for her authorial collaborations with her late husband, Alvin. Their books include The Third Wave, Powershift, The Culture Consumers, War and Anti-War, Creating a New Civilization, and Revolutionary Wealth. She holds multiple honorary doctorates in law and letters and has been awarded the medal of the President of the Italian Republic for her contributions to social thought.
Melissa Edris has been in the voice-over business for more than ten years. Her voice can be heard on numerous television and radio commercials as well as on narration projects, promos, and audiobooks, including Revolutionary Wealth and The Heart of a Soldier.
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