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1、Alvin Toffler,The sole certainty is that tomorrow will surprise us all.,The Brief Introduction,Alvin Toffler (1928.10.04) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution and technological singularity. Toffler is a former associate e
2、ditor of Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact through effects like information overload. He moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society. His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st-century military hardware, the proliferation of new t
3、echnologies, 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 ma
4、gazine, and a business consultant. Toffler is married to Heidi Toffler, also a writer and futurist. They live in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California, just north of Sunset Boulevard. The couples only child, Karen Toffler, (19542000), died at the age of 46 after more than a decade suffering
5、 from GuillainBarr syndrome.,Early life and career,Alvin Toffler was born in New York city in 1928. He met his future wife, Heidi, at New York University where he was an English major and she was starting a graduate course in linguistics. Being radical students, they decided against further graduate
6、 work, moved to the Midwestern United States, and married, spending the next five years as blue-collar workers on assembly lines while studying industrial mass production in their daily work. Heidi became a union shop steward in the aluminum foundry where she worked. Alvin became a millwright and we
7、lder. Their hands-on practical labor experience got Toffler a position on a union-backed newspaper, a transfer to its Washington bureau, then three years as a White House Correspondent covering Congress and the White House for a Pennsylvania daily. Meanwhile, his wife worked at a specialized library
8、 for business and behavioral science. They returned to New York City when Fortune magazine invited Alvin to become its labor columnist, later having him write about business and management. After leaving Fortune magazine, Alvin Toffler was hired by IBM to do research and write a paper on the social
9、and organizational impact of computers, leading to his contact with the earliest computer “gurus” and artificial intelligence researchers and proponents. Xerox invited him to write about its research laboratory and AT&T consulted him for strategic advice. This AT&T work led to a study of telecommuni
10、cations which advised its top management for the company to break up more than a decade before the government forced AT&T to break up。 In the mid-60s, the Tofflers began work on what would later become Future Shock. In 1996, with Tom Johnson, an American business consultant, they co-founded Toffler
11、Associates, an advisory firm designed to implement many of the ideas the Tofflers had written on. The firm worked with businesses, NGOs, and governments in the U.S., South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, Australia, and other countries.,Future Shock,The modern man feels shock from rapid changes.,Fu
12、ture Shock,Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. In the book, Toffler defines the term “future shock“ as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of “too much change in too short a
13、 period of time“. The book, which became an international bestseller, grew out of an article “The Future as a Way of Life“ in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue. The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.,Future Shock,Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormou
14、s structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a “super-industrial society“. This change overwhelms people. He believed the accelerated rate of technological and social change left people disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation“future shocked. Toffler s
15、tated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock, he popularized the term “information overload.“ His analysis of the phenomenon of information overload is continued in his later publications, especially The Third Wave and Pow
16、er shift. In the introduction to an essay entitled “Future Shlock“ in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote: “Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of Teachers of English. In that address we used the phrase “future shock“ as a way of describing the social paralysis induced by rapid technological change. To my knowledge, Weingartner and I were the first people ever to use it in a
