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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

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin Toffler

“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.”

Alvin Toffler

“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler book Future Shock

Future Shock (1970), Introduction

Alvin Toffler Quotes

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

Alvin Toffler

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

“A library is a hospital for the mind.”

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Alvin Toffler

“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

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

“4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”

Alvin Toffler

“Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.”

Alvin Toffler book Future Shock

Future Shock (1970), ch. 15

“…the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.”

Alvin Toffler

The Eco-Spasm Report (1975). Quoted in The Higher Taste, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1983, p. 13

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

Alvin Toffler book Future Shock

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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