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But they all stand in the shadow of Alvin and Heidi Toffler, the husband-and-wife team whose 1970 blockbuster, Future Shock, blasted the infant profession into the mainstream and set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASHING IN ON TOMORROW | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

These are the kinds of questions that are asked--and, for a price, answered--by the forward-looking folks who call themselves futurists. Once the calling of wild-eyed Cassandras and 19th century writers and social scientists on the radical fringe, long-range forecasting has become a sophisticated and quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASHING IN ON TOMORROW | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

But it was the Tofflers who brought futurism to the masses. Future Shock made the new profession cool. The book and its best-selling sequels, The Third Wave (1984) and Powershift (1990), examined not just tomorrow but today, not just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASHING IN ON TOMORROW | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Nobody propagandizes for the future more enthusiastically these days than Wired magazine, the four-year-old glossy compendium of new-media prognostication and high-tech fetishism. Even as it was loudly fueling the public frenzy for new-media stocks and entrepreneurs, however, Wired was quietly affiliated with a Bay Area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASHING IN ON TOMORROW | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Then White House aides began showing the entries, which are little more than guest lists from White House social functions and signing ceremonies--a Friends List for the digital age. While some people are noted as Clinton and party contributors, the information is out of date and without dollar figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SORRY, NO GATE HERE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

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