Alvin Toffler 

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Alvin Toffler

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"Toffler" redirects here. For the game show host, see Larry Toffler.

Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler (2007)
Born	October 3, 1928 (aged 82)
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	United States
Ethnicity	Jewish
Education	Multiple honorary doctorates
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Futurist, Journalist, Writer
Known for	Future Shock, The Third Wave
Board member of	International Institute for Strategic Studies
Spouse(s)	Heidi Toffler
Partner	Tom Johnson
Awards	McKinsey Foundation Book Award for Contributions to Management Literature, Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres
Website				http://www.alvintoffler.net
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Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society. His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st century military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism. He is married to Heidi Toffler, also a writer and futurist. They live in Los Angeles.
Accenture, the management consultancy firm, has dubbed him the third most influential voice among business leaders, after Bill Gates and Peter Drucker. He has also been described in the Financial Times as the "world's most famous futurologist".
People's Daily classes him among the 50 foreigners that shaped modern China.<sup>[3]

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For me, Alvin Toffler was incredible in his prescience in the book "Future Shock". I think it is this book more than any others he wrote that influenced the modern educated Chinese man and woman and now their children.


I too, was influenced a lot by this book and by Megatrends and by Megatrends 2000. When I look at U.S. citizens I think that not enough Americans and their children took seriously what Alvin Toffler was writing about back then. When I look around me today I think that the personalized "Me" culture is the result. Until American youth once again see that we as Americans are all in this together and that we in the U.S. all rise and fall together and that unless we All make the United States Immortal and eternal every day it won't be. Without enough of us seeing the big picture and acting like we actually care the United States will be gone tomorrow. Or is it already gone and we all are just witnessing the last gasps?</sup>