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futurist Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler (born October 4, 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 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, an editor of Fortune magazine, and a business consultant.
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Networks Asia
January 4, 2018
The noted futurist and author, Alvin Toffler, famously described technology as the “great growling engine of change.” He was right. And, in today's fast-paced and increasingly complex business environment, it is growling more loudly than ever! Simply maintaining the status quo is no longer enough.
The CPA Journal
December 29, 2017
As lifelong learners, today's auditors must keep up with and even anticipate changing and rapidly advancing technologies and regulations. Futurist Alvin Toffler, commenting on the digital and communication revolution, noted that “the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,ÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 29, 2017
Many remember the late Alvin Toffler, whose Future Shock (1970) and Third Wave (1980) books inspired millions to be forward thinkers. A renowned futurist, Toffler wrote about eventual advances in nanotechnology, personal computing, cable television, and mobile communication. More recently, AlecÃÂ ...
Straight Talk (blog)
December 20, 2017
And it's a constant state of evolution. We don't sit back after making a few changes. We keep iterating to improve what we have. “The illiterate of the 21st century,” as well-known futurist Alvin Toffler wrote, “will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”à...
Bangkok Post
December 10, 2017
However, as Alvin Toffler, the renowned American writer, futurist and businessman, once said: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” What do you think is the reason underlying this famous quotation? Before delvingÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
July 8, 2016
Futurist Alvin Toffler speaks to an international forum on global warming and oceans in Seoul in 2007. ... Manjoo describes how hardworking futurists have few colleagues, governments fail to invest in infrastructure, and high-tech colossi stand astride the political-economic landscape, commanding tributeÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
More than 40 years ago, Alvin Toffler, a writer who had fashioned himself into one of the first futurists, warned that the accelerating pace of technological ... “I don't know of many people anymore whose day-to-day pursuit is the academic study of the future,” said Amy Webb, a futurist who founded the FutureÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
July 3, 2016
Alvin Toffler, the noted futurist, passed away last week. He was 87. Toffler saw it all before it happened. Through his seminal books, Future Shock (1970) and The Third Wave, (1980) he accurately predicted the trajectory technology and society would take — from centralized, mass industrial institutions toÃÂ ...
Inc.com
July 1, 2016
"No serious futurist deals in 'predictions,' " he wrote in the Future Shock introduction, instead encouraging readers to think about the book's larger concepts. When NPR asked him in 2010 why, then, he was a futurist, Toffler replied: "Because it makes you think. It opens up the questions of what's possible.
New Republic
June 29, 2016
Futurism now seems like an old-fashioned enterprise, redolent of the 1960s, when people dreamed of jet-packs and meals in astronaut-tested pills. Toffler, whose death at age 87 on Monday is now being reported, was one of the most famous futurists of the late 20th century. His 1970 book Future Shock was a massiveÃÂ ...
The Korea Herald
December 5, 2017
The famous futurist Alvin Toffler said, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” If so, then improving teaching and creating more opportunities for lifelong learning should be at the center of reforms as the third phase of the ...
Nasdaq
November 22, 2017
Now let's honor another futurist ahead of his time (as if they could be anything but), the late great Alvin Toffler. ... But you have to ask yourself, if even the smartest futurists like Toffler and Kurzweil could only get about half of their predictions right, how can you or I really know what's coming, in what time ...
East Bay Times
November 13, 2017
We've already lost the first battle because Putin realized something that we didn't: that futurist Alvin Toffler was right when he said power in the 21st century would be based on information. Or, in Putin's case, disinformation. But don't lose heart. Losing the first battle doesn't necessarily mean losing the war.
New Vision
November 10, 2017
It reminds me of American Futurist Alvin Toffler's observation that, “The illiterates of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Choices have consequences –okalya dda kadda dda, so the Baganda say! The critical questions to this ...
The Korea Herald
November 8, 2017
Lee attributed this to the enhancement of women's capabilities and society's need for women to play greater roles, as the late futurist Alvin Toffler predicted. "Now, nurturing women leaders and taking advantage of their capabilities have become key factors affecting a country's future," Lee said, adding that ...
The State
November 7, 2017
Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter “informationalize” your private data — to use a term popularized by the futurist Alvin Toffler in the 1980s. They offer you a free account in return for information about your interests. Then their robots send you news and advertising programmed for you.
Daily Pioneer
November 5, 2017
We are riding the crest of the third wave — a term used by futurist Alvin Toffler to describe our post-industrial era. By this term, he implied a society fuelled (and empowered) by democratisation of access to information through advances in technology. In effect, a world we live in. From porn to wars, and ...
SYFY WIRE (blog)
October 17, 2017
... such as Ray Kurzweil and Alvin Toffler, Future Studies became more popular to the ... Magic Leap, which hired Neal Stephenson to become their Chief Futurist. ... freelance futurists for consulting or research companies such as Envisioning, ...
Business in Vancouver
October 10, 2017
Futurist Alvin Toffler said something like, “To be literate in the 21st century does not mean you can read or write, but rather that you can learn, ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
October 6, 2017
The show's title references the 1970 book by futurist Alvin Toffler. One of his points in that volume is eerily relevant in the age of the iPhone, ...
WIRED
September 29, 2017
Future Shock author Alvin Toffler saw the problem back in 1970, when ... Fellow futurist Ben Bagdikian expressed similar concerns, writing that ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (blog)
February 15, 2017
Half a century ago, Alvin Toffler published a book “about what happens ... where it has become a commonplace to speak of futurists, meaning ...
Slate Magazine
July 8, 2016
Futurist Alvin Toffler speaks to an international forum on global warming ... Manjoo describes how hardworking futurists have few colleagues, ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
More than 40 years ago, Alvin Toffler, a writer who had fashioned himself into one of the first futurists, warned that the accelerating pace of technological ... “I don't know of many people anymore whose day-to-day pursuit is the academic study of the future,” said Amy Webb, a futurist who founded the Future ...
Huffington Post
July 3, 2016
Alvin Toffler, the noted futurist, passed away last week. He was 87. Toffler saw it all before it happened. Through his seminal books, Future ...
Inc.com
July 1, 2016
When it was published in 1970, Alvin Toffler's Future Shock painted a picture--at times surprising and other times grim--of what future societies ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
October 6, 2017
The show's title references the 1970 book by futurist Alvin Toffler. One of his points in that volume is eerily relevant in the age of the iPhone,ÃÂ ...
MediaPost Communications
October 5, 2017
This is old-hat logic from futurist Alvin Toffler: Muscle power is not fungible. But as he forgot to say, muscle power is necessary. The simple factÃÂ ...
Albany Business Review
October 5, 2017
"No serious futurist deals in prediction," wrote Alvin Toffler, futurist and ... It is a rule still followed by a new wave of professional futurists who areÃÂ ...
WIRED
September 29, 2017
Future Shock author Alvin Toffler saw the problem back in 1970, when ... Fellow futurist Ben Bagdikian expressed similar concerns, writing thatÃÂ ...
The Hindu
September 26, 2017
Alluding to American writer, futurist, and businessman Alvin Toffler's concept of future shock, he says, “We are living in a world that is advancingÃÂ ...
Korea JoongAng Daily
September 6, 2017
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who oversees artificial ... Lately, false prophets have been emerging under the assumed title of futurists. ... In his 1983 book “Previews and Premises,” Alvin Toffler wrote that the futurist's jobÃÂ ...
Kenosha News
August 12, 2017
“Nobody knows the future with certainty,” wrote futurist and author Alvin Toffler. “We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.” I'm notÃÂ ...
Austin Chronicle
August 10, 2017
... floor of her peculiar and predatory kind, late-stage capitalist sharks circling out of futurist Alvin Toffler's book, Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth,ÃÂ ...
Independent Online
August 7, 2017
Alvin Toffler, who for nearly 30 years has dominated popular futurist thought, shared some thoughts on the eve of the millennium with SouthÃÂ ...
Independent Online
August 7, 2017
Alvin Toffler, who for nearly 30 years has dominated popular futurist thought, shared some thoughts on the eve of the millennium with SouthÃÂ ...
SouthCoastToday.com
July 28, 2017
We've just passed the 45th anniversary of the documentary Future Shock by Orson Wells based on the book by Alvin Toffler, a futurist from theÃÂ ...
HuffPost
July 27, 2017
In the early 80's, Alvin Toffler, an American writer, futurist and author of the legendary book “Future Shock” wrote: ”You've got to think about bigÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
July 16, 2017
The maxim of learning and relearning, upheld by American writer, futurist and sociologist Alvin Toffler, resonates deeply. According to TofflerÃÂ ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
May 1, 2017
DAVID HOULE, THE FUTURIST: Disruption ahead in the next 20 years .... A quote from Dr. Alvin Toffler, one of the greatest futurists of the lastÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
July 8, 2016
Futurist Alvin Toffler speaks to an international forum on global warming ... Manjoo describes how hardworking futurists have few colleagues,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
In “Future Shock,” Alvin Toffler used the term to describe a real ... one of the first futurists, warned that the accelerating pace of technological change ... future,” said Amy Webb, a futurist who founded the Future Today Institute.
Huffington Post
July 3, 2016
Alvin Toffler, the noted futurist, passed away last week. He was 87. Toffler saw it all before it happened. Through his seminal books, FutureÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 3, 2016
Alvin Toffler photographed in the 1970s or 1980s. ... Wave (1980), it established Toffler as one of the world's most famous futurists, with phrasesÃÂ ...
Inc.com
July 1, 2016
When it was published in 1970, Alvin Toffler's Future Shock painted a picture--at times surprising and other times grim--of what future societiesÃÂ ...
New Republic
June 29, 2016
Toffler, whose death at age 87 on Monday is now being reported, was one of the most famous futurists of the late 20th century. His 1970 book Future Shock wasÃÂ ...
Accountingweb.com
December 31, 1999
In 1969, American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that we would be overwhelmed by too many choices. He said that this would inhibitÃÂ ...
Business 2 Community
March 22, 2017
Jon was significantly influenced by Alvin Toffler's book The Third Wave that was published in 1980. Toffler coined the phrase "prosumer ... of an Audi car in your living room. Thomas Frey, one of the futurists spotlighted in Jon's book is Google's ...
Bella Naija
March 13, 2017
Alvin Toffler, the late American writer, sociologist and futurist wrote: The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Business Insider
March 13, 2017
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