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	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 (595 words)

	Booknotes
		Tofflers: We're referring there, I think, specifically to the political elites, and in every country there is a political elite, people who are the decision-makers, and they need to be flexible, is basically what we're saying.
		Heidi Toffler: I was born in Manhattan, in New York, and raised basically in the Bronx.
		Heidi Toffler: Oh, no, as chairman of the recreation committee, we used to have picnics every year, and one year it was hot, and I said, "let's have it at the swimming pool." I think this was '52.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1247 (8227 words)

	Alvin Toffler
		Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, and corporate revolution.
		You can't run the society on data and computers alone." Toffler continues, "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.
		You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy." Toffler would also add that we are moving away from a Second Wave Society into what he would call a Third Wave Society.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alvin_toffler.html (461 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)

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		HEIDI TOFFLER We are already beginning to see the decline of the nation-state and ironically, at the same time, the rise of nationalism.
		HEIDI TOFFLER We had the introduction of the birth-control pill; we had the introduction of mass television; it was the year of the spread of jet aviation.
		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.
	www.eff.org /Net_culture/Infotopia/ibomb_toffler.interview (6537 words)

	Alvin Toffler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution,, and technological singularity.
		First Wave is the society after and replaced the first hunter-gatherer cultures.
		Toffler writes: "The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production,,, mass education, mass media,,, and weapons of mass destruction.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alvin_Toffler (555 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)

	Future Speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Tofflers forecasted the end of the hegemony of the three television networks by what was then termed the EVR [electronic video recorder] (now VCR) and cable TV--indeed, Ted Turner credited the Tofflers with giving him the idea for CNN.
		Although the Tofflers say projecting the future can't be based simply on current trends and that any number of chance elements make a variety of futures possible, for three decades the world has listened to their predictions.
		Heidi Toffler: The industrial model is based on economies of scale: The more units that are produced, the cheaper they cost.
	www.entrepreneur.com /article/0,4621,229933,00.html (1658 words)

	The Future Is Here! But Is It Shocking?
		A sure sign of the Tofflers' enduring relevance as an intellectual force is the continual reissuance of their seminal work, Future Shock, which was first published 30 years ago.
		In their verbal jousting, the Tofflers mused on what they got wrong in Future Shock, as well as what they had right, and reflected on what effect tidal waves such as the Internet will have on us during the next 30 years.
		By their own account, Al and Heidi Toffler are somewhat of an anachronism, a couple that have been together for 50 years.
	www.inc.com /magazine/20001201/21119.html (2329 words)

	Wireless Week - Planets Aligning On Spectrum Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		An executive summary of Toffler's draft report accurately describes that approach as "inherently dysfunctional" in today's world of rapid, multifaceted change and global interdependence.
		Toffler asks government and industry to consider higher-level solutions better suited to the future.
		Toffler's "why-not" approach is prompting warring parties to think about ways they can cooperate rather than confront.
	www.wirelessweek.com /article/CA97752.html?spacedesc=Opinion&stt=001 (626 words)

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		Alvin Toffler and his wife Heidi look at the trend sin our society and they come to the conclusion that it is necessary that we change our entire value systems and become adaptable to the changes that are coming or we will fall behind.
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	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.
		He and Heidi are also principals of Toffler Associates, an executive advisory firm they founded several years ago.
		Alvin Toffler, futurist -- brief excerpt from an interview in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 1996.
	www.alteich.com /tidbits/t071700.htm (490 words)

	Wired 1.05: Shock Wave (Anti) Warrior
		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.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.05/toffler.html (905 words)

	I-Bomb
		Back in 1970, Alvin and Heidi Toffler wrote Future Shock, an influential and as it turned out correct vision of the impact information-age technology was having on the world.
		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.selenasol.com /selena/extropia/war1.html (6531 words)

	Santa Clara University: Center for Science Technology and Society - Advisory Board Member (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Heidi Toffler is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington and a member of the advisory council of the Center for Global Communications in Tokyo.
		She holds an honorary doctorate in law and has been awarded the medal of the President of the Italian Republic for her contributions to social thought.
		The Tofflers are honorary Co-Chairs of the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Development Fund for Women.
	sts.scu.edu /center/board/heiditoffler.htm (145 words)

	The FLICC Newsletter, Spring 1995
		Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Futurists and Authors of Future Shock, The Third Wave, Power Shift, and Creating a New Civilization: Politics of the Third Wave appeared at the March 24, FLICC Forum on Federal Infomation Policies.
		Toffler, whose wife Heidi joined him for a question and answer session, said the third wave began in the United States in the mid-1950s and has led to the demassification of society.
		Heidi said she believed that education needs to be further individualized.
	www.loc.gov /flicc/fn/95/fn9502.html (1684 words)

	War and Anti-War by Alvin & Heidi Toffler - A Book Review by Scott London
		The Tofflers believe that the end of the Cold War is a symptom, not a cause, of the historic change taking place.
		Economic and ethnic rivalries, political demagoguery, religious fanaticism, the erosion of nation-states' sovereignty, and various allied causes are likely to produce more, not less, armed conflicts in the coming years.
		The authors sketch a preventive strategy for peace that includes the sharing of information technology to halt weapons proliferation and the creation of a "rapid reaction contingency broadcasting force" capable of beaming news anywhere in the world.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/toffler.html (351 words)

	A Wake for Clausewitz
		According to the Tofflers, "The historic change from a bisected to a trisected world could well trigger the deepest power struggles on the planet as each country tries to position itself in the emerging three-tiered power structure" (p.
		The Tofflers thus accept the long-standing notion that deep and fundamental change--whether in the global system or within a developing country--sparks instability and often violent conflict.
		Furthermore, the Tofflers have had to bend history to fit their model of economic causality, most blatantly when they attribute the Napoleonic revolution in warfare to the industrial revolution.
	www.clausewitz.com /CWZHOME/metz.htm (3235 words)

	940105; 001207; Microtimes; Alvin And Heidi Toffler On Life And Work In The Information Age
		For almost three decades, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have been thinking and writing about the impact of technology on people and culture.
		Since the Tofflers' views are integral to such recent phenomena as "downsiz- ing" and "Just-in-time manufacturing," to say nothing of the very existence of the personal computer industry, we were glad to have the opportunity for a conversation with them during a recent visit to San Francisco.
		Heidi Toffier Therefore we don't need thousands of tanks produced assembly- line fashion in the future; and, since the military is smaller and more information-dependent, and you can upgrade the electronics in a tank, you don't need factories mass-producing.
	www.welchco.com /02/14/01/60/94/01/0501.HTM (6612 words)

	valleypeople.com--Alvin Toffler (MicroTimes, 1995)
		Last year, the Tofflers were approached by the Gingrich-related Progress and Freedom Foundation for permission to distribute an anthology of their previous work (selections from Powershift, The Third Wave, and War and Anti-War) with updated commentary.
		Then I come to Heidi's "theory of congruence," which I think is really important--you cannot restructure your private-sector organizations as radically as we are doing, and fail to restructure the way the public sector is organized.
		On the other hand, having said that, Heidi and I are convinced that such weapons will and if only for defensive purposes, we ought to be studying this and be aware of the modes in which it operates.
	www.yoyow.com /marye/toffler95.html (8542 words)

	Alvin Toffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Initially embraced as part of the shiny new future predicted by Toffler and McLuhan, it was then knocked as unrealistic during the high-pressure 1980s.
		It seems less strange when you know that Gingrich has been a friend of futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler since the early 1970s, back when Alvin Toffler's Future Shock was riding the bestseller lists and Gingrich was a history professor.
		Van Toffler, senior vice president for business development at MTV, is quick to point out that rock videos existed for 10 years before MTV wove them into the cultural fabric.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/people/alvin_toffler (937 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Third Wave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		Toffler's Third Wave uses a bizarre expression of Marxist theory to interpret the obvious: that societies differ in their stages of development and progress in ways that put them in conflict.
		The Tofflers have a fine intuitive grasp of the psychohistorical dynamics that inform many different realms: economic, political, military...well worth reading, though a bit rah-rah in places (I don't quite share their optimism that the Third Wave will make everything better...but then I'm a counselor who has seen a lot).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553246984?v=glance (1509 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As set out in their earlier collaboration, The Third Wave (1980), the Tofflers' scenario portrays a world once bisected into First Wave (agrarian) and Second Wave (industrial) powers changing drastically as the U.S., Europe and Japan move toward a Third Wave economy that creates and exploits electronic information and advanced technology.
		The result on the battlefield, they claim, is the potential for more wars dominated by "knowledge strategy" and featuring high-tech weaponry such as battlefield robots, pilotless combat aircraft, omniscient surveillance satellites, non-lethal weapons like sleep-inducing agents, and by low-cost "niche warfare" using special forces.
		The Tofflers sketch a preventive strategy for peace that includes the sharing of information technology to halt weapons proliferation and the creation of a "rapid reaction contingency broadcasting force" capable of beaming news anywhere in the world.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0788151770 (748 words)

	Toffler-Michael Masters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The book “Creating a New Civilization” by Alivin and Heidi Toffler is a good way to learn about how the world is changing and reflects on many of the ten ramifications of technology I learned about in STS 200.
		In chapter five, Heidi Toffler says that the number of people working in factories will go down, but the production will not change (49).You can see the changes in society due to the rising conflicts, change cannot occur without conflict (27).
		I believe it is important to know about the ten ramifications and what they do and the book by Toffler gives great examples of them.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/m/a/mam982/p5Toffler.html (291 words)

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		Toffler was born on 28 October 1928, in New York City and married Adelaide Heidi Farrell on 29 April 1950.
		There are research files for virtually every project that Toffler was involved with, including his books "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave." The press clippings files are extensive and range from research topics to reviews, and cover countries from Australia to Switzerland.
		Restricted material: Boxes 1-83 are CLOSED except by written permission until the death of the last surviving of Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler, or their daughter Karen Toffler Permission to publish must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/Toffler/word.doc (1307 words)

	GBN: Book Club Newsletter November 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		War and Anti-War, by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, proposes that the three major waves of technology--agriculture (First Wave), industry (Second Wave), and knowledge (Third Wave)--express three different forms of conflict, and conflict between them can surprise both sides.
		Also in your package this month is an issue of Wired that has a cover interview with Alvin Toffler by GBN's Peter Schwartz, plus a profile of GBN member Esther Dyson.
		Recent scenario work on China at Morgan Stanley concluded that the system has matured politically and the reformers are determined to succeed.
	www.gbn.com /BookClubNewsletterDisplayServlet.srv?dt=1193 (394 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: War and Anti-War: Making Sense of Today's Gloabal Chaos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nevertheless, knowing that non-lethal weapons are evolving, and the 4th C of conflict are well established [computers and communications], what glimpses we may get from Toffler projections in "War and Anti-War" are certainly worth a $7.00 entrance fee.
		As to the second half of the book's title "Anti-War", the predictions are not as adequate--though we should not be too hard on Toffler on this point--the prevention of war is not an easy thing.
		One of Toffler's suggestions is basically of an international organization like the UN having teeth, that is, armed force.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0446602590 (1189 words)

	Communism Between Marx and the Marketplace: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
		Heidi and Alvin Toffler--authors of The Third Wave and Future Shock--noted:
		According to the Tofflers, that is why so many Soviet scientists favor glasnost (openness) and "want even more freedom."[2] That is also why "it will be necessary [for Soviet leaders] to think the apparently unthinkable--that many of the Soviet Union's most critical 'contradictions' arise from the monopoly of political power by a single party."[3]
		It should be a permanent aim of U.S. policy, both domestic and foreign, to keep that lesson before the nation and the world.
	www.cato.org /pubs/pas/pa087.html (8562 words)

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