War and Anti-War

Author: Alvin Toffler
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Publish Date: 2007-03-01
Features: Will we fall into, or can we avoid, a long and bloody war? In this new book, Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler explore the profound and thorough analysis of the topic of war and peace, which has been frequently discussed throughout human history. These futurists believe that the way people create wealth is also the way they wage war—today's revolutionary changes in business will also be reflected in the armies and future wars of countries around the world. For this reason, Toffler and his wife argue that the urgent task is to create peace while undergoing change. Toffler and his wife believe that since ancient times, the form of war has been constantly evolving. In the agricultural era, war took the form of hoes and swords; in the industrial era, war was characterized by mass production and destructive weapons; and in the future, as the role of information and knowledge in the economic system continues to grow, we will witness the arrival of an era where "software defeats steel." Just as the famous military strategist General Carl von Clausewitz, in his book "On War," proposed in the early 19th century that "future wars will develop in an industrial form," Toffler and his wife argue that from now on, "knowledge strategy" will play an increasingly important role in military thought. In other words, we will face War 3.0, a more refined and diverse form of warfare. Today's wars are related to fluctuations in fuel prices at gas stations, changes in food prices in supermarkets, and the rise and fall of stock prices in the securities trading market. They damage the environment and intrude into our lives through television screens. Over a thousand years ago, a war led to the birth of the command hierarchy, a form of authority familiar to countless office workers today. Even if future wars are planned or merely imagined, they may still take away the taxes we pay today. For people today, the world lacks not more emotional expression, but a fresh understanding of the relationship between war and a rapidly changing society. To oppose war, we must surpass the wars we seek to prevent!