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alanwatts · 2016-05-09 · Original thread
For anyone interested in this shift in power, check out futurist Alvin Toffler's Powershift.

His thesis is that the pinnacle of power throughout time as technology has evolved has shifted from brute strength, to money in the industrial age, and now finally to information in the post-industrial age which we live in now.

http://www.amazon.com/Powershift-Knowledge-Wealth-Violence-C...

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