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	Life Matters: 5 March 1998 - Alvin Toffler
		Alvin Toffler is best known for his first international best seller, 'Future Shock', but has written many books since, including 'The Third Wave, about the massive wave of change we're going through at the moment; unparalleled in human history, according to Toffler.
		Alvin Toffler: The central change that the economists have not yet been able to get their arms around, is the change in the role of knowledge in the broadest sense of information and ideas and data, the relationship of that to making wealth in an economy.
		Alvin Toffler: My view is that the second-wave, the Industrial Revolution, and the second-wave of change in history that it brought, emphasised things like standardisation, specialisation, centralisation, maximisation of scale, and if you put them all together in a single organisation, they create bureaucratisation.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lm/stories/s10440.htm (5862 words)

	Alvin Toffler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity.
		Toffler writes: "The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction.
		Toffler's works and ideas have been subject to various criticism, usually with the same argumentation used against futurology, that is that foreseeing the future is nigh impossible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvin_Toffler (620 words)

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		ALVIN TOFFLER You had mass media, the newspaper, you had television, you had mass education, you had mass entertainment, mass recreation; and as far as warfare was concerned, you had, for the first time in history, mass destruction.
		ALVIN TOFFLER The third wave brings with it a fundamental change in the structure of our societies — we move from the mass, industrial society that arose during the last 200 or 300 years to a new kind of society in which more and more things are ‘demassified’.
		ALVIN TOFFLER And indeed Clinton, in what I regard as one of the stupidest moves, sends a warship off the coast of Haiti and withdraws it because these hundred guys were on the dock — all tracing back to the use of television.
	www.eff.org /Net_culture/Infotopia/ibomb_toffler.interview (6537 words)

	Alvin Toffler
		Alvin Toffler is best known for his first international best seller, Future Shock, but has written many books since, including The Third Wave, about the massive wave of change we're going through at the moment -- unparalleled in human history, according to Toffler.
		Toffler sketches the emerging economy of the 21st century, presenting a new theory of war and revealing how changes in today's military parallel almost precisely the changes now taking place in business.
		Along with his wife and co-author, Heidi Toffler, Dr. Toffler describes their latest book as a surprising departure from their past work, one made necessary by the new dangers that confront America and the world at the edge of the 21st century.
	www.maslowtoffler.com /AToffler.html (1255 words)

	Amazon.ca: Future Shock: Books: Alvin Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Toffler's main argument is that humanity, as of 1970, is in the midst of an enormous shift from an industrial society to a super-industrial society.
		Toffler likens future shock to the same sort of disorientation that a person experiences when he moves to a new area, or a new country, and suffers a severing of all he has known.
		Toffler even supports oversight of technology so that any new products or ideas can be examined to determine their effects on society at large (a big no-no to big business).
	www.amazon.ca /Future-Shock-Alvin-Toffler/dp/0553277375 (1885 words)

	Alvin Toffler and the Third Wave
		Toffler's session was like one of those pony cart rides you take through Old Williamsburg, only the driver is going at breakneck speed, and the pony is wide-eyed and snorting, and what you are looking at is not a restoration of the past, but fleeting glimpses of the future.
		Both Alvin and Heidi Toffler worked in factories when they were young, and they knew, as all factory workers of that era knew, that the job was to turn out the longest possible line of identical products.
		Toffler does not endorse the fracturing of the American family that has occurred in the past 30 years, but he notes that it is of a piece with everything else that has happened.
	www.skypoint.com /members/mfinley/toffler.htm (2763 words)

	Toffler, Alvin Criticism and Essays
		Toffler is best known as a futurist writer whose books exploring the social, economic, and political implications of technological developments have gained recognition for both their popular appeal to the general reader and their influential impact on American as well as international political and military figures.
		Toffler's name remains most commonly associated with his best-selling Future Shock (1970), in which he argues that technological changes since the eighteenth century have occurred so rapidly that many people are experiencing undue stress and confusion because of their inability to adapt quickly to change.
		Toffler held a faculty post at the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1965 to 1967, and was a visiting professor at Cornell University in 1969.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/toffler-alvin (969 words)

	alvin + heidi toffler {futurists} :: Bios
		Alvin and Heidi Toffler are known around the world for their work that has influenced presidents and prime ministers, top leaders in fields ranging from business to non-profit organizations, as well as educators, psychologists and social scientists.
		What differentiates the Tofflers from others who today echo this view is their insistence that there can be no economic transformation without a corresponding upheaval in our social, political and cultural institutions and values.
		In support of this idea, the Tofflers draw not merely on economics, but on social psychology, military history, politics, pop culture and religion, revealing the hidden or unnoticed relations among them - and their implications for the decisions we make today.
	www.revolutionarywealth.com /?fa=bios (315 words)

	NPQ
		Alvin Toffler: In two ways: First, knowledge is now the key driver of wealth creation, and, second, the radical fusion of production and consumption will lead to the explosion of the “non-money” economy.
		Toffler: One of the key problems in the world today is de-synchronization — “the clash of speeds” between the old, lumbering mass system and the new diversity, flexibility and acceleration demanded of institutions built on knowledge.
		Toffler: What we are seeing today on the streets of Paris is “wave conflict” — the conflict that arises from the shift out of a “second wave” mass society to a “third wave’ knowledge society; it is a battle between those who benefit from the old system and those who would benefit from the new.
	www.digitalnpq.org /articles/global/72/04-17-2006/alvin_toffler (3228 words)

	Alvin Toffler - Moviefone
		In the annals of contemporary change literature, Alvin Toffler is the...
		Alvin Toffler; Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
		Alvin Toffler; The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/alvin-toffler/71194/main (118 words)

	Tech Tidbit -- July 17, 2000
		Toffler saw future shock as a "disease of change" -- the stress and disorientation induced in people who are subjected to "too much change in too short a time." He did more than diagnose this disease, he offered a prescription: "social futurism" -- large-scale, organized thinking and research about national goals and probable futures.
		Alvin Toffler and the Third Wave -- portrait by Minnesota writer Michael Finley.
		Alvin Toffler, futurist -- brief excerpt from an interview in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 1996.
	www.alteich.com /tidbits/t071700.htm (490 words)

	Amazon.de: Revolutionary Wealth: English Books: Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Tofflers' mantra of "revolutionary wealth" implies that there's money to be made from the maelstrom, but their specific prognostications—the "explosion" of a nonmonetary "prosumer" economy of family care, hobbies and volunteerism; embedded "pinky chips" combining ID and credit cards; the comeback of barter—seem underwhelming or unlikely.
		Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock was a warning shot across the bow, predicting how our adjustment to the rapid acceleration of technological change in the new "super-industrial society" would cause disorientation and dysfunction in the general population.
		With his wife Heidi, Toffler continues his series of scholarly commentary on social and economic change with a look at the revolutionary ways that wealth will be created in the future.
	www.amazon.de /Revolutionary-Wealth-Alvin-Toffler/dp/0375401741 (507 words)

	In Pursuit of Mysteries » Blog Archive » Alvin Toffler at Microsoft
		Alvin Toffler has been one of my heroes since my teen years when I read his early books, like Futureshock, The Third Wave, and Powershift.
		Alvin Toffler wants his book to address where we are going today.
		This is defined by Toffler as: “Those variables that have been in important in EVERY economic system from hunting and agrarian down to today.” These are elements that cannot be escaped from in any economic system.
	www.arcanology.com /?p=766 (1332 words)

	Alvin Toffler
		Toffler created an all-new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture.
		Toffler is interested in the causes of change, its impacts and the rates at which different spheres of human activity change.
		Alvin is a leading consultant to military and intelligence communities around the world, and predicted the rise of ‘asymmetric,’ non-state-sponsored warfare in his classic 1993 book, War and Anti-War.
	ora.ra.cwru.edu /showcase/alvin_toffler.htm (437 words)

	Wired 1.05: Shock Wave (Anti) Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From Future Shock to The Third Wave, Toffler has argued that we are involved in nothing less than a change of civilization - as profound as that from hunter-gatherer to agricultural, from agricultural to industrial.
		Alvin Toffler made his fortune by explaining the strange dread people were beginning to feel about rapid technological change in the late 1960s.
		In 1965, Toffler called the dread "future shock" and then so christened his soon-to- be best-selling book in 1970.
	wired.com /wired/archive/1.05/toffler.html?person=alvin_toffler&... (875 words)

	People's Daily Online -- "History Does Not Follow Straight Lines", interview with Futurist Alvin Toffler
		Alvin Toffler, one of the world's best-known futurists receives an exclusive interview from Yong Tang, People's Daily correspondent based in Washington, DC.
		Toffler: If there were a serious conflict over Taiwan that leads to the involvement of other countries, then you could have something like a world war or a gigantic regional war.
		Toffler: The present education system in the U.S. and the West, and probably in China as well, is a system designed to create factory workers.
	english.people.com.cn /200606/16/eng20060616_274624.html (4916 words)

	Amazon.com: Future Shock: Books: Alvin Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Toffler marshalls a virtual mountain of evidence illustrating his claim of a rising flood of techniological, social, and economic change, largely emanating from the increasing influence of science and technology into every area of contemporary life.
		Toffler's main concern is with the recognition that while a human being's capacity to adjust physically, psychologically, and socially to this torrent of change is finite and quite limited, the pace of change is increasing and expanding into more and more areas of individuals' lives.
		Toffler's concern in Future Shock is the accelerating rate of change in society.
	www.amazon.com /Future-Shock-Alvin-Toffler/dp/0553277375 (2214 words)

	Powell's Books - Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler
		The Tofflers' mantra of 'revolutionary wealth' implies that there's money to be made from the maelstrom, but their specific prognostications — the 'explosion' of a nonmonetary 'prosumer' economy of family care, hobbies and volunteerism; embedded 'pinky chips' combining ID and credit cards; the comeback of barter — seem underwhelming or unlikely.
		In fact, since the preferred Toffler style — in such blockbusters as 'Alvin's Future Shock' and 'The Third Wave' —; is to highlight recent events as a taste of things to come, we are led to believe that the revolution is here already.
		Heidi Toffler holds multiple honorary doctorates in law and letters and has been awarded the medal of the President of the Italian Republic for her contributions to social thought.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-0375401741-0 (1578 words)

	A Conversation with Alvin Toffler - Blogging Milken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alvin Toffler has been a predictor of the future for decades.
		Toffler adds communism to this list and says there is no guarantee that we will continue in linear fashion and that our current globalization trend could be subject to a similar set of factors such as war, economic problems and pandemics.
		Toffler feels that "science is under attack these days from a variety of quarters" and that this is dangerous.
	www.bloggingmilken.com /2006/04/26/a-conservation-with-alvin-toffler (1005 words)

	Alvin Toffler, Futurologist \| Executive Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since the publication of Alvin Toffler's book 'Future Shock' in 1970, his global best-sellers co-written with his wife Heidi have predicted the computer revolution, cable television, video recorders, cloning, and the rise of the knowledge economy.
		Thus Toffler's idea of leadership is one of the ability to handle change, and improve existing practices.
		Toffler recalls that when he was consulting with the US Department of Defense he had doubts about this organization's capacity to change, but took heart when he learned that the new motto among many in the US military is 'Disagreement will not be treated as disloyalty'.
	www.ameinfo.com /44149.html (887 words)

	Alvin Toffler-Interview 5/3/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alvin Toffler, who, with his wife Heidi, has been credited with inventing
		Alvin Toffler: Yes, but also I mean you had the danger of global
		Alvin Toffler: Well we are all different to some degree, and what a mass
	iranscope.ghandchi.com /Anthology/Alvin_Toffler98.htm (5441 words)

	Visions Nov99 - Alvin Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alvin Toffler is one of the world's best-known futurists and social thinkers.
		Toffler works in close intellectual partnership with his spouse, Heidi Toffler, who has co-authored many of his works.
		You have written extensively about the breakup of the industrial system, which you define not just as an economic and political system, but also as the entire culture -- a whole set of institutions and our integrated way of life.
	www.govtech.net /magazine/visions/nov99vision/toffler/toffler.php (4206 words)

	Amazon.com: The Third Wave: Books: Alvin Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The fundamental vision of humanity as seeking a more appropriate civilization that is built around individual choice in coordinating social interests is a remarkably accurate description of the evolution of the free market democracies over the last 20 years.
		Realizing how hard it is to forecast anything, one comes away with a remarkable appreciation for Alvin Toffler's fundamental estimation of human potential.
		Toffler is a must read for anyone interested in how cultural or technological development affects the human race.
	www.amazon.com /Third-Wave-Alvin-Toffler/dp/0553246984 (1514 words)

	What moral standards will we have?Since his 1970 landmark bookFuture Shock, Alvin Toffler has been one of the world’s ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What moral standards will we have?Since his 1970 landmark bookFuture Shock, Alvin Toffler has been one of the world’s most influential futurists.
		According toTime magazine, the Tofflers "set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured." Toffler talked with USATODAY.com about the 21st century.
		Since his 1970 landmark book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler has been one of the world’s most influential futurists.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/columnists/toffler/toff01.htm (712 words)

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