Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

Yet another book in the series by the famed author Alvin Toffler on the changes that are imminent in the world of politic and economics. This one, published around 1990, is about the massive shift from the materials-based economy of the present to an economy in which information and knowledge will be of greater importance. This idea is of course somewhat old hat now, but at the time Toffler was writing this, the personal computer and internet revolution had not yet gathered steam. Looking at it now in 2023, one is struck by the author's prescience and deep understanding. He even mentions the possibility of the breakup of the USSR - he seems to have written this after the Tien-An-Men tragedy in China but before the USSR broke up. The show more main problem I have is the unreasonable size of the book (a decidedly pre-modern feature!), and the tediousness of his text - he seems to have wanted to put in everything under the sun, and sometimes he lets his specific knowledge of a particular situation to overtake his editorial good sense. show less

Efada's private copy

Las guerras de la información, la batalla en las cajas, extra-información, el poder de la red, la guerra que no deja de extenderse, la línea de pensamiento del ejecutivo, la guerra total de la información, la empresa: el poder en la firma flexible, la explosión de los cubículos, la firma flexible, los jefes de tribu y los comisarios empresariales, el empleado autónomo, el mosaico del poder, coda: el nuevo sistema de creación de riqueza.

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