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Alvin Toffler and the Third Wave

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« on: September 28, 2009, 06:49:15 pm »

Alvin Toffler and the Third Wave

by Michael Finley 

"America's best-loved business futurist"

In the annals of contemporary change literature, [url]Alvin Toffler[/url=http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=17] is the 600-pound gorilla. He and his wife and collaborator Heidi Toffler have written a baker's dozen of books that have all been best-sellers, starting way, way back in 1970 with Future Shock. The family tree of thousands of books about the future, and about how to cope with it, all lead to the leafy canopy where he makes his roost.
He has written about society, culture, the media, organizations, science, computers, politics, and economics. We could easily have picked his brain for an entire day. So how much could we expect to squeeze from him in 90 minutes?
Quite a lot, as it turned out. 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.

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Continued: http://www.skypoint.net/members/mfinley/toffler.htm

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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 06:57:10 pm »

Alvin Toffler on The New Economy (1/6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raey9DH7wDc&feature=related

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