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Author |
: Alvin Toffler |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 625 |
Release |
: 2022-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593159477 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593159470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Shock by : Alvin Toffler
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 |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2016-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807526835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807526835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Shock by : Elizabeth Briggs
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 |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0999736442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780999736449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis After Shock by : Ray Kurzweil
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 |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2014-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617230103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1617230103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Present Shock by : Douglas Rushkoff
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 |
: Alvin Toffler |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 1984-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553277371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553277375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Shock by : Alvin Toffler
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 |
: Mark Ashton |
Publisher |
: HarperChristian Resources |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2010-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780310867746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0310867746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Shock by : Mark Ashton
The Reality Check series makes just one assumption: that you’re serious enough about your spiritual journey to investigate Christianity with an open mind. This isn’t about joining anyone’s religious club—it’s about being real with yourself and with the others in your group. Since no one has all the answers, there’s plenty of room for discussion. After all, if there is any truth to the Bible’s stories about Jesus, then one thing he’d welcome are questions and opinions that come from honest, earnest hearts.What do you think the future holds? Right now it looks pretty scary. And Bible prophecy hardly brightens the picture—not with its mind-boggling images of singing saints, ten-horned monsters, mystical numbers, and a lake of fire. What does it all mean? Fortunately, it does mean something. A great deal. And while the Bible paints a grim future for a world bent on worshiping its own ways, it offers great hope for those whose hearts are set on God. Future Shock includes these sessions: Will Jesus Return This Year? · The Scroll Opener · After the Gavel Falls . . . · Ultimate Evil: The Antichrist, the Beast, and 666 · Happily Ever After? · Flight TrainingFor the Group LeaderReality Check is for spiritual seekers of every persuasion. Uncompromisingly Christian in its perspective, it steers wide of pat answers and aims at honesty. This innovative and thought-provoking series will challenge you and those in your group to connect heart to heart as together you explore the interface between Jesus, the Bible, and the realities of this world in which we live.
Author |
: Alvin Toffler |
Publisher |
: Currency |
Total Pages |
: 514 |
Release |
: 2007-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385522076 |
ISBN-13 |
: 038552207X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolutionary Wealth by : Alvin Toffler
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 |
: Alvin Toffler |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 2022-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593159767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593159764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Shock by : Alvin Toffler
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 |
: Emilio Iodice |
Publisher |
: Anclote Press |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2014-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0929652371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780929652375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Shock 2. 0 by : Emilio Iodice
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 |
: Elizabeth Briggs |
Publisher |
: Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2018-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807526880 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807526886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future Lost by : Elizabeth Briggs
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.