《미래쇼크》, 《제3물결》를 통해 일찍이 지식기반 사회의 도래를 예견했던 세계적 미래학자 앨빈 토플러는 이 책 《부의 미래》를 통해 다가오는 제4물결을 예견하고 경제에서 사회제도, 비즈니스부터 개인의 삶까지 미래 세계를 조명한다. 그가 15년 만에 내놓은 《부의 미래》는 제목 그대로 미래의 부(富)가 어떻게 변화하고 우리의 삶에 영향을 미칠지 논거한 책이다. 이 책은 단순히 경제학적 관점에서의 부가 아니라 문화와 문명이라는 좀 더 커다란 구조 속에서 우리 생활 곳곳에 영향을 미치는 부가 어떻게 형성되고, 어떻게 변화하며, 또 어떻게 이동하는지, 우리의 삶에 어떤 변화를 몰고 올 것인지를 제시하고 있다.


Foreword xiii
Introduction xvii
PART ONE/REVOLUTION
Spearheading Wealth 3(10)
Fad of the Month
Loosened Constraints
Guitars and Anti-Heroes Giggle News
Embedding Intelligence
Capital Tools for Knowledge
The Wilder Shores
Converging Possibilities
The Child of Desire 13(6)
The Meaning of Wealth
Managers of Desire
PART TWO/DEEP FUNDAMENTALS
Waves of Wealth 19(5)
The Pre-Historic Einstein
The Man Who Ate Himself
Beyond Fantasy
Today's Wealth Wave
Three Lives, Three Worlds
Deep Fundamentals 24(7)
The Inerrantists
Obsolete Fundamentals
The Future of the Job
Interplay
PART THREE/REARRANGING TIME
The Clash of Speeds 31(10)
Trains on Time?
Ready with the Radar
Leaders and Laggards
When Elephants Stand Pat
Inertia Vs. Hyper-Speed
The Synchronization Industry 41(5)
Dancing Toward Productivity
No More Cold Eggs
No Last-Minute Scramble
The Arrhythmic Economy 46(6)
The Ecology of Time
Casualties of Time
Post-merger Blues
The Time Tax
The Technology Ballet
Supper Without Sushi
The New Timescape 52(11)
The Chains of Time
Love at High Speed
Customizing Time
When Good Ideas Arrive
Media Time
Family, Friends and Face Time
The Americanization of Time?
The 24/7 Future Whizzing Toward Where?
PART FOUR/STRETCHING SPACE
The Great Circle 63(3)
Asia, Ho!
Opening the Floodgates
Higher-Value-Added Places 66(7)
Yesterday's Places
Dissolving Borders
The Cheap-Labor Derby
Tomorrow's Real Estate
Spatial Reach 73(5)
Personal Geography
Mobile Money
Invaders and Invaded
An Unready World 78(6)
More Capitalist Than Thou
The Evian and Ketchup Test
Yellow Dust
True Believers
Thrust Reversers 84(6)
The New Titanic
Export Overload
The Nano-Teaspoon
Mad Max Scenarios
The Space Drive 90(9)
From Dialysis to Heart Pumps
Pilots, Planes and Packages
Unexplored Wealth Frontiers
PART FIVE/TRUSTING KNOWLEDGE
The Edge of Knowledge 99(5)
Kicking Tires
Tomorrow's ``oil'' 104(7)
The More We Use ?
Steel Mills and Shoes
Our Inner ``Warehouse''
Just ASK
Forget Alzheimer's
The Obsoledge Trap 111(4)
Yesterday's Truths
Emily's Attic
The Quesnay Factor 115(7)
Blooper Economics
Estimates of Estimates
Piecemeal Papers
The Missing Framework
The Mistress's Doctor
Filtering Truth 122(8)
Truth on Trial
Six Filters
Consensus
Consistency
Authority
Revelation
Durability
Science
Truth Shifts
Trashing The Lab 130(9)
Razor Blades and Rights
Flip-Flop Politics
Patriarchy and Palmistry
Las Vegas as Role Model
The Eco-Missionaries
Secret Science
The Truth Managers 139(4)
Persuading the Boss
CODA: Convergence 143(8)
Tortoise Time
Once-True Analogies
Mapping the Knowable
PART SIX/PROSUMING
The Hidden Half 151(9)
The Prosumer Economy
A Mum in a Million
The Potty Test
What Price Disintegration?
Grossly Distorted Product (GDP)
The Health Prosumers 160(8)
Betting on One Hundred?
The Panic Zone
Besieged by Breakthroughs
The Diabetes Game
Our Third Job 168(4)
Beyond the Buffet
The Supermarket Shove
The Coming Prosumer Explosion 172(8)
Guitars and Golf Bags
Rampant Consumerism?
Cookies and Simulations
Dwarfing Hollywood
Collective Prosuming
Busting the Hierarchies
More ``Free Lunch'' 180(7)
Teachers, Nurses and Horses
Amateurs Matter
Uncooking the Books
Down-to-Earth
Attacking Anthrax
The Music Storm 187(7)
Estonian Geeks
Prosumer Power
Baby Prosumers
Liposuction Without Surgery
The ``Producivity'' Hormone 194(4)
Beyond Education
Rajender's Game
CODA: Invisible Channels 198(7)
The Prosumer Impact
Unnoticed Therapy
PART SEVEN/DECADENCE
The Gospel of Change 205(6)
The Third Source
Teen Trash
Paul's Story
Hollywood Hedonism
One Step in the River
Implosion 211(9)
Pandemic Loneliness
Post-Kindergarten Factories
Creative Accounting
Intensive Care
The Golden Years
Politics of the Surreal
Systemic Breakdown
An Epidemic of Failure
Stars on Strike
Corroding The Wires 220(5)
FBI Time
Global Space
An Overload of Obsoledge
Complexorama 225(5)
What Bill Gates Knows
12,203 Problems
The Sepulveda Solution 230(10)
Every American Woman
Fake Transformation
Shifting Chairs
Cameras and Cops
Creating New Institutions
Innovations That Breed Innovations
Inventing the Think Tank
CODA: After Decadence 240(13)
The Values War
Extreme Extremes
Anti-Decadence
Mingling with Moguls
Inventing New Models
``Satanic Mills''
Post-Cassandra?
PART EIGHT/CAPITALISM'S FUTURE
Capitalism's End Game 253(6)
Cars and Cameras
The Untouchables
The Fetish of Touch
The Horse and the Song
Converting Capital 259(6)
Ranges of Risk
Democratic Doorways
Growth in Econo-Land
Flattening the Down
Impossible Markets 265(8)
Rare Money
Mass + Mass = Mass+
Flash-Markets
Personal Pricing
Approaching the Limits?
Whispered Secrets
The Virtual Twin
Running Tomorrow's Money 273(14)
The Hidden Tax
Blips on Chips
The Closing Bell
Wildcat Currency
Para-Money
The Anti-Obesity Card
Streaming Money
Pepsi Vodka
Prosumer Pay?
PART NINE/POVERTY
The Old Future of Poverty 287(8)
Hitting the Limit
A Poverty of Strategies
Typical Japanese ``Muck''
The Spillover Effect
Asia Can't Wait
Twin Tracks to Tomorrow 295(8)
India Awakened
Bangalore Central
The Greatest Generation?
Yes, but No
Cracking Poverty's Core 303(16)
Instead of Trial and Error
Bring on the Bananas
Bio-Economies
Help from the Heavens
Secret Prices
The Smartest Agronomist
Smart Dust
Bill Gates's Echo
What Worked Best Won't
Distributing Energy
Hyperagriculture
PART TEN/THE NEW TECTONICS
China's Next Surprise? 319(13)
Looming over the World
Accelerating Acceleration
Global Space
Mining Knowledge
War The Bloody Thread
Meet Mao II
Japan's Next Bamboo Ring 332(12)
Latte, Anyone ?
Japan's Lopsided Leap
Flex-Nations
Decision Delay
No More Christmas Cakes
The Silver Wave
A Filipina or a Robot?
Awaiting the Ring
Europe's Lost Message 344(10)
The All-Time Low
The Widening Split
Speeding in Slow Motion
Yesterday's Heartland
The Lisbon Dream
Inside America 354(9)
More Wave Warfare
24 Billion Hours
Stealing the Future
The Nameless Coalition
Forces for Change
The Next Step
Outside America 363(6)
The Old Game
An ``Unsordid Act''
Backlash and Bewilderment
Reversing Homogeneity
The Unseen Game of Games 369(11)
Neo-games
No Longer Human?
Tomorrow's NGOs
Religio-Economics
God on the Move
The End of Petro-power
Utopia Past
The Fragility of Power
The Nano-Now
Epilogue: The Prologue is Past 380(13)
The Nostalgia Brigade
A Prosumer Pathway?
Pessimist-in-Chief
Moon Power
Hope for the Human Race?
From Picos to Yoctos
Notes 393(63)
Bibliography 456(10)
Acknowledgments 466(3)
Index 469