随着托夫勒的《第三次浪潮》于1980年出版发行,并在文化思想界中引起轰动之后,约翰·奈斯比特于1982年出版了《大趋势——改变我们生活的十个新方向》一书,再一次引起人们的普遍注意。本书出版后受到美国报刊和世界舆论的重视,有的评论吹捧它是五十年代以来美国出版的能够准确把握时代发展脉搏的三本巨著之一(第一本是1956年威廉·怀特写的《组 Following Toftor’s Third Wave, which was released in 1980 and caused a sensation in the cultural world, John Nesbitt published in 1982 “The Megatrends - Ten New Variations That Change Our Lives Direction ”book, once again aroused widespread attention. After the publication of this book by the American press and the world’s attention, and some comment touted it is published in the United States since the 1950s to accurately grasp the pulse of the development of the era of one of the three books (the first is written by William White in 1956 "group