The powershift era -- Muscle, money, and mind -- Beyond the age of glitz -- Force : the Yakuza component -- Wealth : Morgan, Milken-- and after -- Knowledge : a wealth of symbols -- Material-ismo! -- The ultimate substitute -- The checkout battle -- Extra-intelligence -- Net power -- The widening war -- The executive thought police -- Total information war -- The cubbyhole crash -- The flex-firm -- Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars -- The autonomous employee -- The power-mosaic -- CODA : the new system for wealth creation -- The decisive decades -- The invisible party -- Info-tactics --Meta-tactics -- A market for spies -- The info-agenda -- The image makers -- Subversive media -- The "screenie" generation -- CODA : yearnings for a new dark age -- The global "K-factor" -- The fast and the slow -- Socialism's collision with the future -- The power of balance -- Triads : Tokyo, Berlin, Washington -- The global gladiators -- CODA : freedom, order, and chance.

Discusses power at the edge of the 21st century. Deals with violence, wealth and knowledge and the roles they play in our lives; and discusses new paths to power opened by a world of upheaval.