Bombarded by the future
This is Toffler's in-depth look at the fall of General Motors over the
past decades. He describes it
in the context of a larger revolution, that from a labor-based system
to a knowledge-based system.
He describes how Japan's rise in knowledge-based applications, such
as robots, took over General
Motors' reliance on the older system of manufacturing, using humans'
labor. He also says that
Japan realized that the future would be based on knowlege, so it took
steps to progress in that
direction. He goes further, saying that this revolution from labor
to knowledge has created global
competition between the advanced nations and forced the realignment
of developing economies.
My analysis
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