Alvin Toffler

Biographic Data

ID75982
NAMEAlvin Toffler
GIVEN NAMESAlvin
FAMILY NAMEToffler
SIGNATURETOFFLER A
AFFILIATIONSThe futurist, is author with his wife, Heidi, of a new book, Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives . Their previous books have included the groundbreaking Future Shock and The Third Wave . He spoke with NPQ in 2006.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS92
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Cyberspace and the American Dream

    Esther Dyson, George Gilder et al.CHAPTERInformation Society Reader2020

    The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth — in the form of physical resources — has been losing value and significance. Most of the knowledge in cyberspace lives the most temporary (or so we think) existence: people voice, on a telephone wire or microwave, travels through space at the speed of light, reaches the ear of people listener, and is gone forever. Clear…

  • Le cyberspace et le rêve américain: Une Magna Carta pour l'ère de la connaissance

    Esther Dyson, George Gilder et al.ARTICLECahiers philosophiques2015

  • Revolutionary Wealth

    Open AccessAlvin TofflerARTICLENew Perspectives Quarterly2013

    Civilizations are mortal. Some rise to meet their challenges, others collapse and disappear into history. Why do some posses the capacity to change, and others not? Jared Diamond warns that the Anthropocentric Age, in which the human species for the first time is the dominant influence on the planet, could end up like the extinct Maya, terminating our civilization's accomplishments if we don't squarely face our ecological challenges. Bruce Mau, l…

  • The Third Wave's Third Way: Networks vs. Elementary Particles ‐ Summer 2006

    Open AccessAlvin Toffler, Richard Sennett et al.ARTICLENew Perspectives Quarterly2008

  • The Discontinuous Future: A Bold but Overoptimistic Forecast

    Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1998Cited by: 1

  • War and anti-war

    Alvin TofflerBOOKWar and anti-war1995Cited by: 23

  • The Future and the Functions of Art: A Conversation between Alvin Toffler and John McHale

    Alvin Toffler, John MchaleARTICLELeonardo1987Cited by: 1

    Futurism, in the early decades of the twentieth century, was the name given to a school of artists and poets led by Filippo Marinetti. Not to be confused with that historical movement, an important new tendency, also called futurism, is attracting support among writers, designers, architects, artists, sociologists, philosophers and others who see in the accelerated change of the present the breakdown of an old civilization and the birth pangs of …

  • The Third Wave

    Wendell Bell, Alvin TofflerARTICLESocial Forces1982

  • The third wave

    Alvin TofflerBOOKThe third wave1981

  • Trends in Social Epistemology

    Magoroh Maruyama, Alvin TofflerARTICLEPolitical Psychology1980Cited by: 1

  • A future for parliaments

    Open AccessAlvin TofflerARTICLEFutures1975Cited by: 1

  • The Futurists

    Lawrence E Koslow, L KOSLOW et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1973

  • Prognostics

    Alvin Toffler, Fred L PolakARTICLETechnology and Culture1972

  • The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point

    Kurt Lang, Charles Winick et al.REVIEWAmerican Sociological Review1971Cited by: 44

  • Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

    Open AccessRonald Abler, Zbigniew Brzezinski et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1971Cited by: 16

  • Future Shock

    Marc H Bornstein, Marc Bornstein et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • The Schoolhouse in the City

    Gladys Engle Lang, Alvin TofflerARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1969Cited by: 2

  • The Art of Measuring the Arts

    Open AccessAlvin TofflerARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1967Cited by: 3

    The transition to postindustrialism is marked by increasing political concern for the quality of life. The arts, an important determinant of the quality of life, are af fected by this transition in the following ways: growth of mass participation in cultural activities; elaboration of the institu tional framework of the arts; formation of a "culture lobby"; and politicalization. Decision-makers in government, busi ness, research, and education mu…

  • Future Perfect

    Alvin Toffler, H Bruce FranklinARTICLETechnology and Culture1967

  • The Accidental Century

    Alvin Toffler, Michael HarringtonARTICLETechnology and Culture1966