Alvin Toffler

@Writers, Life Achievements and Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Alvin Toffler was an American futurist and speculative sociologist who wrote on the digital and communication revolution, and technological singularity American New York University Writers Libra Celebrities Alvin Toffler was an American writer, who wrote on futurism related to communication, digitalization and corporate growth. He was known to be the ‘world’s most famous futurologists’ and is considered as an important influence in shaping of the modern China. He started as being an associate editor at the ‘Fortune’ magazine and did analysis for them in the field of business and management. Before that, he devoted some of his youth in working at the labor’s level and then became a labor columnist, shared his experience and analysis on the working class. His earlier writings focused on the expansion of technology and its impact on the society which got him research works form companies like IBM and AT & T. Toffler from there on wrote books like ‘Future Shock’, ‘The Third Wave’, etc. in which he addressed the problems of information overload, increasing military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism. Owing to his impeccable understanding of the future impact of the current revolutionary technological changes, he was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, serves on the advisory board of the Comptroller-General of the United States, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He married to Heidi Toffler, who was a futurist and intellectual in her own right and had an active influence on Toffler’s professional growth.

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Birthday: October 4, 1928 Died on: June 27, 2016 Nationality: American Famous: Futurist, Writers, New York University, Writers Spouses: Heidi Toffler Universities: New York University Notable Alumnis: New York University Information Detail Birthday October 4, 1928 Died on June 27, 2016 Nationality American Famous Futurist, Writers, New York University, Writers Spouses Heidi Toffler Universities New York University Notable Alumnis New York University Birth Place New York Gender Male Father Sam Toffler Mother Rose Toffler Sun Sign Libra Born in New York Famous as Writer & Futurist Died at Age 87

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He met his wife Heidi Toffler, also a futurist writer, at the New York University in 1928 and got married to her right after that. They both have a child, Karen Toffler, who died some time back after suffering from Guillain Barre Syndrome. Unsplash Personal Life

Alvin Toffler died on June 27, 2016, at his home in Los Angeles. Unsplash Personal Life

Alvin Toffler was born on 4 October 1928, in New York City and went to the New York University where he studied English literature and met his future wife Heidi. They both were radical thinkers and belonged to the Left Wing ideology. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

They left the university together and relocated to the Midwest of the United States, working the blue-collar jobs on the assembly line. After five years, Heidi became a union shop steward and he became a millwright and welder. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After working as a manual laborer for some time, Toffler got a job in the Washington office of a Union sponsored paper. He used to write on the political affairs of American Congress and the White House for a Pennsylvanian daily. Unsplash Career

He worked three years for the Pennsylvanian daily and then moved to New York City to work as a labor columnist for the ‘Fortune’ magazine. He was later asked to write on the topics of business and management. Unsplash Career

Thereafter, Toffler left ‘Fortune’ and joined IBM and was asked to write an essay on how computers have changed society and organizations. While working on this essay, he came in contact with many original theorists on artificial intelligence. Unsplash Career

Xerox also asked Toffler to write analysis on its research laboratory and AT & T. His study revealed that that company should have broken up more than a decade before the government forced it to break down. Unsplash Career

In 1970, Toffler wrote his first book called ‘Future Shock’. In this book he explained the psychological changes that come from ‘too much change in too short period of time’. The book was an international bestseller. Unsplash Career

He is known to be the third most significant business leader after Bill Gates and Peter Drucker by ‘Accenture’, the management consultancy firm. Unsplash Trivia

He has been called the ‘world’s most famous futurologist’ by Financial Times and is known to have been amongst the most important influences in shaping modern China. Unsplash Trivia

He is the recipient of the McKinsey Foundation Book Award for Contributions to Management Literature. Unsplash Trivia

He has the visiting scholar position from the Russell Sage Foundation. Unsplash Trivia

He also received the prestigious Officer de L’Ordre des Arts et Letters. Unsplash Trivia

Information	Detail
Birthday	October 4, 1928
Died on	June 27, 2016
Nationality	American
Famous	Futurist, Writers, New York University, Writers
Spouses	Heidi Toffler
Universities	New York University
Notable Alumnis	New York University
Birth Place	New York
Gender	Male
Father	Sam Toffler
Mother	Rose Toffler
Sun Sign	Libra
Born in	New York
Famous as	Writer & Futurist
Died at Age	87

Alvin Toffler

American

Oct 4, 1928

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