Powershift
Toffler gives a new name (
Powershift) to the rapidly unfolding events of the last decades and paints a captivating picture of the future.
Powershift
completes a monumental trilogy on change in our times, persuasively
employing a cornucopia of examples on how information and technology
have transformed business, politics, and society in general. This work
discusses new ways of thinking about change and how it causes the
abrupt transformation of an entire society form the central theme.
Within the context of a new theory of social power,
Powershift
focuses on knowledge and its changing role as manifested in the radical
transformations in business, the economy, politics, and global affairs.
Why do some people commit crimes, use the wrong fork, or speak out of turn? How does a society determine when a crime has been committed, which fork to use, and who should speak when? How have we tried to explain deviance and create categories of deviants? What has been the role of race and class in these definitions? How do deviants reconcile their behavior with society's norms? What have been the contributions of Freud, Durkheim, Lombroso, and modern literary criticism to our understanding of deviance and conformity? How is the practice of science itself an example of deviance and conformity?
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to
National Geographic, is the official journal of the
National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in
1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world's best-known
magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover...
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to
National Geographic, is the official journal of the
National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in
1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world's best-known
magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover...
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world's best-known magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover...
