Also Alvin Toffler argues that knowledge is the central resource in the economy of the information society: " In a Third Wave economy, the central resource – a single word broadly encompassing data, information, images, symbols, culture, ideology, and values – is actionable knowledge " ( Dyson / Gilder / Keyworth / Toffler 1994 ).

The very first edition had an exclusive interview with renowned physicist, Freeman Dyson, the second edition with American writer and futurist, Alvin Toffler.

In the framework of the Wave Theory of Toffler, such an institution, if constituted along lines similar to present-day nation states, would represent the very archetype of the Second Wave writ large.

A closer reading of the book, however, may mistake its central theme as a partial completion of the questions left open by Toffler concerning the nature of Third Wave society at the global level, rather than another major historical watershed.

Today, a The Third Wave ( Toffler ) of shifting power is taking place with wealth being overtaken by knowledge.

Reflecting the categories of power presented by Mann ( ideological, economic, military ), Toffler ( knowledge, wealth, violence ), Gramsci and others, Gee asserts that movements can use ' Idea Counterpower ', ' Economic Counterpower ' and ' Physical Counterpower ' to challenge the power of ruling elites.

Naisbitt and many other proponents of the theory of postindustrial societies argue that those megatrends lead to decentralization, weakening of the central government, increasing importance of local initiatives and direct democracy, changes in the hierarchy of the traditional social classes, development of new social movements and an increase in the power of consumers and the number of choices available to them ( Toffler even used the term " overchoice ").

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

It is different from bureaucracy ; like Toffler, Mintzberg considers bureaucracy a thing of the past, and adhocracy one of the future.

Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970.

Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a " super-industrial society ".

An early example is the book of Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, which Pine and Gilmore quote in their work.

" Van Toffler, then the general manager of MTV, said in 1998 that Daria " has an attitude about parents, school, and siblings that is common to the experiences of our audience.

" Information overload " ( nicknamed infobesity ) is a term popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock.

Toffler posited information overload as having the same sorts of effects, but on the higher cognitive functions, writing: " When the individual is plunged into a fast and irregularly changing situation, or a novelty-loaded context ... his predictive accuracy plummets.

Finally, from the late 1970s sociologists and anthropologists like Alvin Toffler ( author of Future Shock ), Daniel Bell and John Naisbitt have approached the theories of post-industrial societies, arguing that the current era of industrial society is coming to an end, and services and information are becoming more important than industry and goods.

Toffler is surname of:

* The term was coined by futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1980 and that meaning is not commonly used today.

Toffler is discussed in depth below.

Discussing some of these issues with Newt Gingrich on C-Span's After Words program in June 2006, Toffler mentioned that The Third Wave is the second ranked bestseller of all time in China, just behind a work by Mao Zedong.

The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler.

Toffler writes: " The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction.

However, the question is still unresolved and no official word has been forthcoming from Toffler.

Capp was the Playboy interview subject in December 1965, in a conversation conducted by Alvin Toffler.

* Toffler, Alvin, Playboy Magazine ( December 1965 ) interview with Al Capp, pp. 89 – 100

" Later, a Lady Gaga video convinced Van Toffler of the tenability of a Beavis and Butt-Head revival: " I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point-of-view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring.

The title derives from the futurist work Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.

The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible ( the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties ), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls " subcults ", including what would in 2010 be described as " gangs.

* Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock.

MTV Networks president Van Toffler was reported as saying a revival of the series was being considered, and that the show's creators had been approached about the possibility.

The futurists Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler reported comprehensively on this phase of the history of non-lethal weapons in their 1993 book, War and Anti-War.

The term was first popularized in 1970 by Alvin Toffler, and has since become often used in the theory of management of organizations ( particularly online organizations ), further developed by academics such as Henry Mintzberg.

Alvin Toffler claimed in his book Future Shock that adhocracies will get more common and are likely to replace bureaucracy.

In the book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler used the phrase super-industrial society to describe this type of society.

* Esther Dyson / George Gilder / George Keyworth / Alvin Toffler ( 1994 ) Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age.

In the book, Toffler defines the term " future shock " as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies.

Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock.

In 1971, Toffler criticized how “ economists have great difficulty imagining alternatives to communism and capitalism ”, and how they could only envision the economy in the terms of scarcity of resources.

Later, many fans and critics saw Paul Henning's popular TV sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1962 –' 71 ) as owing much of its inspiration to Li ' l Abner, prompting Alvin Toffler to ask Capp about the similarities in a 1965 Playboy interview.

* Toffler, Alvin, Playboy Magazine ( December 1965 ) interview with Al Capp, pp. 89 – 100

He furthermore argues that this legacy of imperialism or cultural imperialism is still very influential in international systems of power.

Turning to ( 2 ), Hume argues that we cannot hold that nature will continue to be uniform because it has been in the past, as this is using the very sort of reasoning ( induction ) that is under question: it would be circular reasoning.

However Michael Wilcock, formally of Trinity College, Bristol, argues that Elijah's letter: ' does address a very ' northern ' situation in the southern kingdom ', and thus is authentic.

Andrew N. Rubin argues, " Orwell claimed that we should be attentive to how the use of language has limited our capacity for critical thought just as we should be equally concerned with the ways in which dominant modes of thinking have reshaped the very language that we use.

The defendant argues that damages should be slight, since " he is such a very bad lot ," while the plaintiff argues that she loves the defendant fervently and seeks " substantial damages.

Elsewhere he argues against the single pair origin, indicating his disbelief, noting for example, " how very different in their bodies are the Germans and Scythians from the Libyans and Ethiopians.

" He argues that working people's struggles are inherently dramatic: " They live life very vividly, and the stakes are very high if you don't have a lot of money to cushion your life.

Libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard argues that " the very existence of a natural law discoverable by reason is a potentially powerful threat to the status quo and a standing reproach to the reign of blindly traditional custom or the arbitrary will of the State apparatus.

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He then argues that this principle entails radical conclusions — for example, that affluent people are very immoral if they do not give up some luxury goods to donate the money for famine relief.

Since the business cycle is very hard to predict, Siegel argues that it is not possible to take advantage of economic cycles for timing investments.

Richard Ellmann argues that the proofs show a man " very much in command of himself and of the play ".

Angela Marcantonio ( 2002 ) argues that the Finno-Permic and Ugric languages are no more closely related to each other than either is to Turkic, thereby positing a grouping very similar to Ural – Altaic or indeed to Castrén's original Altaic proposal.

This argues very strongly for Alex Woolf's conclusion that Óengus mac Fergusa " effectively destroyed the kingdom.

Finally, based on research in cognitive psychology and some investigations in the philosophy of language, he argues that very few of the categories used by humans are actually of the black-and-white type amenable to analysis in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions.

Noting the uncertainties surrounding events so far back in time, Herman te Velde argues that the historical roots of the conflict are too obscure to be very useful in understanding the myth and are not as significant as its religious meaning.

At the trial, the prosecutor calculates the ( very small ) probability of winning the lottery without cheating and argues that this is the chance of innocence.

Boschert argues that Cobasys accepts only very large orders for these batteries.

Trotsky argues that countries like Russia had no " enlightened, active " revolutionary bourgeoisie which could play the same role, and the working class constituted a very small minority.

Oliver argues that in the speech, there is no clear evidence of either seriousness or irony but instead " this lecture by Kate on the wife's duty to submit is the only fitting climax to the farce – and for that very reason it cannot logically be taken seriously, orthodox though the views expressed may be [...] attempting to take the last scene as a continuation of the realistic portrayal of character leads some modern producers to have it played as a kind of private joke between Petruchio and Kate – or even have Petruchio imply that by now he is thoroughly ashamed of himself.

Regarding the latter, David Hume argues that because " anger and hatred are passions inherent in our very frame and constitution, the lack of them is sometimes evidence of weakness and imbecility.

He argues that later on, they would have realised the meaning of these emotions, begun to identify with Paganism and taken " an active interest in Nationalist politics designed to preserve and to cultivate this very heritage ".

In his book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would have taken a very different course.