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ALVIN TOFFLER
Alvin Toffler literally invented the role of the futurist with the publication of his seminal work, Future Shock, creating an all new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture. Throughout his long career, Alvin Toffler has remained one of the world's most prescient, insightful and influential voices in business and intellectual life. He has continued to produce creative ideas that define how we think about our world. Time magazine wrote that he has "set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured."
What makes Alvin Toffler so extraordinary is that he asks questions nobody else has thought of and and then answers them by fundamentally redefining things in ways that keep making sense as the future unfolds. He's created several lasting thought paradigms—new frameworks for understanding ourselves and the way we change—that offer invaluable strategic advantage to those who are paying attention. And he pegs these frameworks with predictions and insights that consistently verify that his sense of direction is right on. His most recent book has continued to build his legacy. Ten years in the writing, Revolutionary Wealth reimagines the nature of wealth and the paths to its creation. In addition to Revolutionary Wealth and Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi (his wife and intellectual partner of 51 years) have written one significant book after another, including The Third Wave, Powershift and War and Anti-War.
Early life and career
Alvin Toffler was born in New York City in 1928. He met his future wife, Heidi, at New York University where he was an English major and she was starting a graduate course in linguistics. Being radical students, they decided against further graduate work, moved to the Midwestern United States, married, spending the next five years as blue-collar workers on assembly lines while studying industrial mass production in their daily work. Heidi became a union shop steward
Alvin Toffler literally invented the role of the futurist with the publication of his seminal work, Future Shock, creating an all new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture. Throughout his long career, Alvin Toffler has remained one of the world's most prescient, insightful and influential voices in business and intellectual life. He has continued to produce creative ideas that define how we think about our world. Time magazine wrote that he has "set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured."
What makes Alvin Toffler so extraordinary is that he asks questions nobody else has thought of and and then answers them by fundamentally redefining things in ways that keep making sense as the future unfolds. He's created several lasting thought paradigms—new frameworks for understanding ourselves and the way we change—that offer invaluable strategic advantage to those who are paying attention. And he pegs these frameworks with predictions and insights that consistently verify that his sense of direction is right on. His most recent book has continued to build his legacy. Ten years in the writing, Revolutionary Wealth reimagines the nature of wealth and the paths to its creation. In addition to Revolutionary Wealth and Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi (his wife and intellectual partner of 51 years) have written one significant book after another, including The Third Wave, Powershift and War and Anti-War.
Early life and career
Alvin Toffler was born in New York City in 1928. He met his future wife, Heidi, at New York University where he was an English major and she was starting a graduate course in linguistics. Being radical students, they decided against further graduate work, moved to the Midwestern United States, married, spending the next five years as blue-collar workers on assembly lines while studying industrial mass production in their daily work. Heidi became a union shop steward