The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
A Nonfiction, Economics, History book. I helped lift a sixty-five-year-old woman out of the bloody machine...
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- Pages: 560 pages
- ISBN: 9780553246988 / 553246984
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I helped lift a sixty-five-year-old woman out of the bloody machine that had just torn four fingers off her hand, and I still hear her cries"Jesus and Mary, I won't be able to work again!"The factory. Long live the factory! Today, even as new factories are being built, the civilization that made the factory into a cathedral is dying. And somewhere, right now, other young men and women are driving through the night into the heart of the emergent Third Wave civilization. Our task from here on will be to join, as it were, their quest for tomorrow. Alvin... Individuals need life structure. A life lacking in comprehensible structure is an aimless wreck. The absence of structure breeds breakdown.Structure provides the relatively fixed points of reference we need. That is why, for many people, a job is crucial psychologically, over and above the paycheck. By making clear demands on their time and energy, it provides an element of structure around which the rest of their lives can be organized. The absolute demands imposed on a parent by an infant, the responsibility to care for an invalid, the tight discipline... Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama. Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave //
Great book for near future Especially in developing countries This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The book contends that the world has not swerved into lunacy, and that,in fact, beneath the clatter and jangle of seemingly senseless events there lays a startling and potentially hopeful pattern. And this book is about that pattern and that hope.9 It... Everybody
