Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler is an Author, Futurist and Principal of the consulting company Toffler & Associates. He has written more than a dozen books, including the best sellers Future Shock and Third Wave. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a visiting professor at Cornell University, a faculty member at the New School for Social Research, a White House correspondent, an editor at Fortune magazine and a business consultant. He is the recipient of several prizes and appointments, including Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Considered by many to be a master of future blueprints, Toffler wrote about the proliferation of computers, the advent of cable television, niche markets, the shift to work-at-home, corporate restructuring, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the shift to a global economy and dozens of other scenarios before they appeared in our nomenclature.