The Third Wave

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What to expect

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 twenty-first-century democracy.

Critics Review

  • “Magnificent…An astonishing array of information.”

    Wall Street Journal
  • “A detailed, breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive.”

    Cosmopolitan
  • “Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic…will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of [today’s] puzzling social changes.”

    Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  • “Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions, and myths.”

    Associated Press

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