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Summary: 3rd Wave :Thought-provoke
Review: I've finished this book last year. For me I need a lot of time and peaceful moment to read this book. To actually think along. Tofler give the reader trend and fact of what will happen for the next period in our lives. He began with the historic past and the situation now. and provide the reader some idea and evidence for the thing which will happen in his opinion. Some change is inevitable. Many information in this book will take you to another side of your thought. I will not comment whether I beleive him. But one thing I need to hi-light here is that I love reading this book. The book which contain a lot of information and trend which gives you other view to the future-world. the reader themselves are the people to judge whether they should believe.
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Summary: Packed with Knowledge!
Review: Perhaps the reason that Alvin Toffler's classic book feels so relevant some 25 years after its initial publication is the fact that he wrote it in a time which, in retrospect, was not so different from our own: The world was trembling before the threat of terrorism embodied, in Toffler's age, by Iranian terrorists, and radical new technologies, in the form of powerful and increasingly affordable computers, were drastically altering business and society. But probably, the book resonates simply because he was right about almost everything. For that reason, we from getAbstract recommend this book as a basic requirement for any professional.
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Summary: VISIONARY
Review: The book was published in the the early 1980's. The situations and examples given by Toffoler , though excellent, cannot be well appreciated by us as they seem out of palce in current times. However we must give Tofler his due for his predictions of the future. Even back in the 1980's ,when he wrote the book, he has rightly predicted the break up the USSR and emergence of the 'EURO'. I would'nt recommend this book as a "must read", but anyone with a literary interest and the patience must invest in this book.
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Summary: Treasure of knowledge
Review: Third wave keeps multidimensional perspectives Its for every human being, to read: students, teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers,sociologist, Economist,IT managers, sales personnels, and whosever can read and understand this Bible.
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Summary: Treasure of knowledge
Review: Third wave keeps multidimensional perspectives Its for every human being, to read: students, teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers,sociologist, Economist,IT managers, sales personnels, and whosever can read and understand this Bible.
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Summary: An Explanation of the "Computer Revolution"
Review: This book attempts to explain the both the nature and the process of the technological revolution that has transformed the world's social and economic systems. To quote Newt Gingrich, US Speaker of the House of Representatives, "Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framework of a dynamic, exciting future... The Tofflers correctly understand the development and distribution of information that has become the central productivity and power activity of the human race.... In the Third Wave, the Tofflers moved from observation (found in earlier works such as Future Shock) to creating a predictive framework They placed the information revolution (from circa 1990) in an historical perspective, comparing it with the other two great transformations, the agricultural revolution (beginning 8000 B.C thru around 1700) the industrial revolution (beginning around 1700 and still spreading across world society in an ever slower movement) . According to the Tofflers, we are feeling the impact of the third great wave of change in history, and we are, as a result, in the process of creating a new civilization." (Preface to Toffler's Creating a New Civilization) It is the collision of these concentric waves, and the turbulence created by the interaction of these waves, ie the resistance of industrial-based organizations to information-based systems, that accounts, in their view, for much of the seeming social, political and economic disorder. In short, this book seeks to postulate a paradigm that explains the entire scope of the Information Revolution. It succeeds in this goal as perhaps no other book written to date. For this reviewer, The Third Wave is as thought- provoking as we approach the year 2000 as the book The Greening of America was in the 1970s.
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Summary: It's like someone turned on the light - amazing!
Review: This book is one that makes you hit your head and say "Why did'nt I see that". This should be required reading for anyone in management or in the IT field. It brings everything into focus as to why things are happening. I was amazed at the keen perception the author has. This is a must read. Worth every penny.
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Summary: It's like someone turned on the light - amazing!
Review: This book is one that makes you hit your head and say "Why did'nt I see that". This should be required reading for anyone in management or in the IT field. It brings everything into focus as to why things are happening. I was amazed at the keen perception the author has. This is a must read. Worth every penny.
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Summary: It's like someone turned on the light - amazing!
Review: This book is one that makes you hit your head and say "Why did'nt I see that". This should be required reading for anyone in management or in the IT field. It brings everything into focus as to why things are happening. I was amazed at the keen perception the author has. This is a must read. Worth every penny.
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Summary: Incredibly influential
Review: This book was extremely influential. It sparked ideas and thoughts and led to endless discussions with friends who read it. It gave me a whole new way of looking at the world around me. I have recommended this book more than any other.
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