Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave

by Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler

Book Overview

Publisher: Turner Publishing, Incorporated Publication date: 2/15/1995 Edition description: 1st ed Edition number: 1 Pages: 112 Product dimensions: 5.52 (w) x 8.23 (h) x 0.38 (d) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570362238
• ISBN13: 9781570362231
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Turner Publications Inc
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Toffler is a man with a concept looking for a plan

Toffler is a big thinker. His premise in this book as well as in his other books is that just as the agricultural first wave has given way to the second wave industrial age, that it in turn has yielded to the third knowledge revolution. He outlines the differences and prescribes the need for change. In that men have difficulty adjusting to change (see "Who Moved My Cheese"), Toffler outlines how these clashes will be resolved. Just as companies in growth industries altenate between spurts of growth and plateaus of consolidation, societies experience the same disruptions. The Austrian school of economics would call it "creative destruction".This book's core principles emanate from the mind of a visionary thinker. If you want a top-down view of the last couple of centuries it's worth the few hours of reading and thinking you'll have to invest.

Something mean to be happen!

The book, Creating A New Civilization, is really something to me. Without reading Alvin's Future Trilogy, this book provide me a big picture of what the world gonna be. Some chapters are more interesting to me, chapter 3 is one of them. Alvin trying to define the new position of Knowledge in the third wave with a brief chapter. And I think they did it well. How they define Knowledge is exactly what I think. Chapter4 & 8, provide some guidelines to tell the second wave from the third wave, and it's really a n interesting point of view to me. They are not so precise that list everything belong to the second wave or the third wave, but give me an direction and measurement to tell the difference between two waves. I think that I'm going to read this book again just after I finished The Future Trilogy.

Creating a New Civilization---Politics in the 3rd Wave

Speaking as a college student I may not be the best candidate to give a literary critique but I can tell you that this book should be taught to students in our high schools and universities. The predictions made in this book are not merely predictions but rather observations that have already begun in our world. Any educated person can tell that the changes Toffler expects in our world have already begun. Toffler's major principles for the 21st century include: disappearance of anything resembling a factory-based production system, empowering the home rather than society, decentralization of ideas and duties, and the ideal of congruence between the private and public sectors. Once you read this book, you begin to realize how much the world has already changed and how much farther we can progress if not for our "second world" ideals that hold our society back from ultimate progression and discoveries. I recommend that if you love politics as much as I do, buy this book and be amazed!

An eye-opener about current turmoil and future possibilities

I didn't read the authors previuos works, so I cannot compare. However, this short volume is an easy read and makes perfect sense. In this book, the Tofflers explain the reasons behind much of tody's turmoil. This will continue for the next generation. Therefore, it is important to understand. No specific recipes for success or moans of doom and gloom are included. The reader is left to use the book however he or she wishes. It is thought provoking

A book about transformation of societies in the 21st century

Not the kind of landmark piece as Future Shock or Third Wave were, but a good continuation of Tofflers' third wave politics. It helps you to understand some of the major problems western industrialized countries (say USA, Germany, UK, Finland, Sweden, etc.) are facing. It also explains some of the structural changes going on, although it offers a scaringly easy way for sweeping generalisations. Not all of our problems can be pointed to the societal changes from agricultural/industrial society to information society. A good read nevertheless and for a 7 dollar book - this is a bargain.