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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
- Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)
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ZIN Product Number: 10260791
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 302 pages
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Company
ISBN: 0788151770
Release Date: Jan 9, 1997
| |  | | | In Brief
"The Tofflers divide the contemporary and future horizons into three 'waves.' The first is agricultural; the second, industrial. The third . . . is the emerging structure grouped around the development, possession, and transfer of knowledge-- . . . high technology. {The authors argue that} future conflicts will come because of the clash of these hierarchies--as second-wave nations attempt to become third wave, for instance." (Booklist) Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
Are we plunging into a decade of bloody wars? Can they he prevented? In this highly original new book, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, two of the world's leading social thinkers and futurists, train their sights on a subject that has haunted humanity since history began: war and peace. Their premise is that the way we make wealth is the way we make war - that today's revolutionary changes in business are being mirrored in the world's armies and the future of war itself. What is needed, they say, is a parallel revolution in the way we make peace. War and Anti-War describes how the U.S. military went from drug-drenched defeat and demoralization in Vietnam to high performance in the Gulf - a story with lessons for many businesses today as they, too, restructure in preparation for the twenty-first century. When America is groping for new strategies, when its defense industries are in crisis, and when peacemakers are being outsmarted and outgunned around the world, this book tells us why we seem bent on violence - and what to do about it. The forms of war, the Tofflers tell us, have changed throughout history: the agrarian age gave us the hoe and the sword, the industrial age gave us mass production and mass destruction. Tomorrow, as information and knowledge become the core of advanced economies, they say, we will see the triumph of "software over steel." Just as the theories of military strategist Carl von Clausewitz foreshadowed the industrialized war of the past two centuries - the bloodiest form of war ever - this book lays the basis for the "knowledge strategies" that will increasingly dominate military thinking from now on. The "smart bombs" used in the Gulf War provided only a pale hint of a not-too-distant world in which chameleon camouflage changes to match any terrain ... in which robots might make key military decisions... in which precision genetic weaponry can be programmed to attack a specific ethnic or racial group ... in which "virtual reality" weapons are
| | | | Annotation
Two of the world's leading futurists and social thinkers turn to a subject that has haunted people since its origins--war. Beginning with a provocative analysis of warfare in the past, they offer intriguing insights into today's military conflicts--and an eye-opening portrait of the future face of battle. As seen on the Today show.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Two of the world's leading futurists and social thinkers (Future Shock, The Third Wave) offer a provocative vision of warfare in the past and intriguing insights into today's military conflicts by analyzing the horrifying reality of possible future war. The Tofflers hope to influence strategies for a war-free future. An eye-opening examination of war and peace
| |  | | | | Introduction | 3 | | Pt. 1 | Conflict | 7 | | 1 | Unexpected Encounter | 9 | | 2 | The End of Ecstasy | 13 | | 3 | A Clash of Civilizations | 18 | | Pt. 2 | Trajectory | 27 | | 4 | The Revolutionary Premise | 29 | | 5 | First Wave War | 33 | | 6 | Second Wave War | 38 | | 7 | Airland Battle | 44 | | 8 | The Way We Make Wealth... | 57 | | 9 | Third Wave War | 64 | | 10 | A Collision of War-Forms | 81 | | Pt. 3 | Exploration | 87 | | 11 | Niche Wars | 89 | | 12 | Space Wars | 98 | | 13 | Robot Wars | 108 | | 14 | Da Vinci Dreams | 118 | | 15 | War Without Blood? | 125 | | Pt. 4 | Knowledge | 137 | | 16 | The Knowledge Warriors | 139 | | 17 | The Future of the Spy | 153 | | 18 | Spin | 165 | | Pt. 5 | Danger | 177 | | 19 | Ploughshares Into Swords | 179 | | 20 | The Genie Unleashed | 190 | | 21 | The Zone of Illusion | 204 | | 22 | A World Trisected | 213 | | Pt. 6 | Peace | 221 | | 23 | About Peace-Forms | 223 | | 24 | The Next Peace-Form | 226 | | 25 | The Twenty-First-Century Global System | 241 | | Acknowledgments | 253 | | Notes | 255 | | Bibliography | 269 | | Index | 285 |
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