From the author of Future Shock 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.. Praise fo