Background
Toffler was born on October 4, 1928 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Sam and Rose (Albaum) Toffler.
Alvin Toffler with Yong Tang, People's Daily correspondent based in Washington.
Alvin Toffler and his wife Heidi Toffler.
Alvin Toffler with Yong Tang, People's Daily correspondent based in Washington.
Alvin Toffler and his wife Heidi Toffler.
(Future Shock is about what is happening today to people a...)
Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow’s family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.
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(In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus ...)
In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit—the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones, politics and personal life. The very nature of power is changing under our eyes. Powershift maps the “info-wars” of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise—not between East and West or North and South, but between the “fast” and the “slow.” In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read.
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(The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent chang...)
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.
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(Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predict...)
Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.
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(Beginning with a provocative analysis of warfare in the p...)
Beginning with a provocative analysis of warfare in the past, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler offer intriguing insight into today's military conflicts--and an eye-opening portrait of the battles of the future. By describing the horrifying realities of future war, the authors offer innovative strategies for implementing future peace.
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Toffler was born on October 4, 1928 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Sam and Rose (Albaum) Toffler.
Toffler graduated from New York University in 1950.
Toffler began his career as a welder in 1950 in Cleveland to study assembly lines and mass production. Four years later he became a reporter for the trade newspaper, Labor’s Daily and in 1959 he was hired by Fortune magazine as a labour writer and editor.
Then in 1962, Toffler began a freelance career, writing long form articles for scholarly journals and magazines. He won praise for a 1964 interview of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov that was published by Playboy magazine. Also he interviewed a Russian-American writer Ayn Rand for the same magazine.
Toffler was hired by the International Business Machines Corporation in order to conduct research and write a paper on the social and organizational impact of computers. In addition, Xerox Corporation invited him to write about its research laboratory and American Telephone and Telegraph Company consulted him for strategic advice.
In the mid-1960s, Alvin began five years of research, that he published in his best-selling book "Future Shock" in 1970. Then in 1980, Toffler, with the help of his wife Heidi, wrote a book, The Third Wave, in which he attempted to prognosticate and describe the economic and societal changes that were likely to take place in the rapidly materializing postindustrial age.
In 1996, Alvin, along with his wife and American business consultant Tom Johnson formed Toffler Associates, an advisory firm designed to implement many of the ideas Toffler had written on. During this period in his career, Toffler lectured worldwide, taught at several schools and met world leaders.
Toffler was known for his best-selling books "Future Shock", which has sold over 6 million copies, "The Third Wave" and "Powershift", all of which have been translated into dozens of languages. Toffler's ideas and writings were a significant influence on the thinking of business and government leaders worldwide, including United States politician Newt Gingrich, China's Zhao Ziyang and AOL founder Steve Case.
Also he was a founder of Toffler Associates.
(In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus ...)
(Beginning with a provocative analysis of warfare in the p...)
(Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predict...)
(Future Shock is about what is happening today to people a...)
(The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent chang...)
Quotations:
"Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition."
"If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse."
"The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success."
"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
"Society needs people who take care of the elderly and who know how to be compassionate and honest. Society needs people who work in hospitals. Society needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone."
Toffler was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
On April 29, 1950 Alvin Toffler married Adelaide Elizabeth "Heidi" (Farrell) Toffler and had a daughter.
