Alvin Toffler

Part of it is what I call the Alvin Toffler / Robin Williams effect.

YesButNoButYes: Cognitive Surplus and The Sitcom 2008

Theorists of future shock such as Alvin Toffler and Marshall McLuhan plausibly claimed that our nervous systems were themselves sped up by these developments, which were driven by the development and proliferation of technologies.

Warren Ellis 2009

Would love to hear Alvin Toffler's hip hop because, now that I think about it, Future Shock unified the futures like this, too.

Eric J. Henderson: Hip Hop and the (Near) Future Eric J. Henderson 2011

Would love to hear Alvin Toffler's hip hop because, now that I think about it, Future Shock unified the futures like this, too.

Eric J. Henderson: Hip Hop and the (Near) Future Eric J. Henderson 2011

Alvin Toffler coined the term Prosumers in his 1980 book The Third Wave to label people similar to the leading-edge consumers we were studying at Euro RSCG Worldwide, the parent company of the PR agency I head up.

Marian Salzman: Prosumers in E-Love Marian Salzman 2011

The student of Alvin Toffler added that "the idea that we're going to pre-emptively have the government start censoring the Internet on behalf of giant corporations' economic interests strikes me as exactly the wrong thing to do."

We Are All Citizens United 2012

D. and star pupil of futurist Alvin Toffler then singled out the Journal's long-held anti-ethanol views as "just plain flat intellectually wrong."

Professor Cornpone 2011

Alvin Toffler coined the term Prosumers in his 1980 book The Third Wave to label people similar to the leading-edge consumers we were studying at Euro RSCG Worldwide, the parent company of the PR agency I head up.

Marian Salzman: Prosumers in E-Love Marian Salzman 2011

SIEGEL: In the 1970s and '80s, Alvin Toffler was America's preeminent authority on things to come.

Futurist 40 Years Later: Possibilities, Not Predictions 2010

(Soundbite of conversations) KASTE: But here in 2010, things don't seem that bad, at least not at this cafe on Sunset Boulevard, a favorite hangout of futurist Alvin Toffler.

Futurist 40 Years Later: Possibilities, Not Predictions 2010