The Third Wave Alvin Toffler Book
by Alvin Toffler

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JADRANSKIApr 2013

I read A. Toffler since time ago. His books are of socio-scientific content, warning us about the incoming changes (some of them already on place) on the whole society.

The third wave means the accumulation of persons from all around the world, with a certain level of conscience, working to build the future. After the first wave (discovering of fire) and the second (industrial revolution), the Third one has completely new features, as it is made from the sum of millions of efforts and personal attitudes, and coming from worldwide spread sources and not just from a single country, sector, group or region.

Even if I do not agree completely with the conclusions, I found very reasonable the principles exposed and the analysis done.I believe it helps to understand how new technological advances, the possibilities of communication, the lack of resources, lead to new ways to plan strategies, conflicts, and the progressive transformation of the world that we knew since kids in something completely different and with more powerful capacities.

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From the author of Future Shock, a striking way out of today’s despair . . . a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials.

The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy.

Praise for The Third Wave

“Magnificent . . . an astonishing array of information.”—The Washington Post

“Imperishably fresh.”—Business Week

“Will mesmerize readers, and rightly so.”—Vogue

“Alvin Toffler . . . has written another blockbuster . . . a powerful book.”—The Guardian

“Fresh ideas, clearly explained. . . . Toffler has proven again that he is a master.”—United Press International

“Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions and myths.”—Associated Press

“Once you have walked into his version of the future, you may decide never again to whitewash some of the built-in frailties of the real present.”—Financial Post

“Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic . . . will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of [today’s] puzzling social changes.”—The Globe & Mail

“A detailed breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. . . . Toffler’s vision of a democratic, self-sustaining utopia is a brave alternative to recent grim warnings.”—Cosmopolitan