Alvin Toffler Quotes

Alvin Toffler was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world’s outstanding futurists.Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact, which he termed "information overload." In 1970 his first major book about the future, Future Shock, became a worldwide best-seller and has sold over 6 million copies.

He and his wife Heidi Toffler, who collaborated with him for most of his writings, moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society with another best-selling book, The Third Wave in 1980. In it, he foresaw such technological advances as cloning, personal computers, the Internet, cable television and mobile communication. His later focus, via their other best-seller, Powershift, , was on the increasing power of 21st-century military hardware and the proliferation of new technologies.



He founded Toffler Associates, a management consulting company, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, visiting professor at Cornell University, faculty member of the New School for Social Research, a White House correspondent, and a business consultant. Toffler's ideas and writings were a significant influence on the thinking of business and government leaders worldwide, including China's Zhao Ziyang, and AOL founder Steve Case. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1928 – 27. June 2016
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Famous Alvin Toffler Quotes

“Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.”

Future Shock (1970), Introduction

Alvin Toffler Quotes

“Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.”

1997 interview with John Perry Barlow, as reported on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/JPBarlow/status/104518695333789697

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

Future Shock (1970), ch. 18
Source: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

“If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.”

Future Shock (1970), ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=p1t2SOENHWYC&q=%22with+its+faster+pace+of+life+has+accelerated+the+family+cycle+super+industrialism+now+threatens+to+smash+it+altogether%22&pg=PA258#v=snippet

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