Books
December, 1990
Over the Past two decades, as his predictions in Future Shock (1970) and The Third Wave (1980) have been fulfilled, Alvin Toffler has come to be regarded as one of the world's most important visionary thinkers. This last book in his trilogy of studies of global change, Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (Bantam), is so thoroughly researched, so brilliantly reasoned and so lucidly presented that soon Toffler may be hailed as a prophet.There are three basic...