The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler

Written by Alvin Toffler
Read by Peter Berkrot
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Unabridged

From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today’s despair…a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials.The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today’s dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of 21st-century democracy.

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Amazon review I 100% agree with:

In my view, the best of the original “trilogy” (to which a fourth book was eventually added). This book changed the way I experienced and understood history - it put human development into context in a way which was never properly elucidated to me before.

In essence, Toffler shows how society and economy have moved from hunter-gatherers to the industrial age, and then to the knowledge/information based economies of the world we currently live in.

The details and depth of research in this book are staggering. And, for basically a very long research paper, his style is exciting and engaging, pulling the reader through the statistics and historical events shaping his overall thesis.

As cheesy as it sounds, when I read this book in 1992, it changed my life; it ignited a new appreciation and fascination with history to the point where I now seek it out.