Word: toffler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seminar on "Planning for Alternative Futures: the Role of Government and Citizens" will take place in the Kirkland Junior Common Room. Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock" will speak to the conference at 1:30 p.m. A panel discussion will begin at 2:30, with Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes and others as participants...
...only a psychological profile, not a definitive tome on American business practices. And to an extent, he is right: as a psychologist, he deals in the abstract, approaching society with a precise scientific manner that far outclasses the pat ramblings of pop sociologists such as Vance Packard and Alvin Toffler. His findings are interesting, and certainly valuable for their portrayal of the different types of drives that keep the engine of the American economy running. Indeed, in one chapter, Maccoby strikes home with a telling analysis of "the head and the heart" of the successful corporate figure, painting a clear...
Nixon may be the first President to instinctively use Alvin Toffler's "roaring current of change." Events tumble over themselves in the reckless race of this society toward "future shock." Yesterday and its outrages are often obliterated by today and its triumphs...
...nobody talks about the end of the citizen. In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler writes about participatory democracy and the future of it, and yet everything in the new technology is antidemocratic. If you've got computers, you don't have to share information with the bureaucracy; you just give the elite access to instant information. All the information coming in from different sides-economic, political, religious, social-has one common thing and that is that it is antidemocratic, which is one reason why the kids keep talking about participation democracy. Because when something is about...
...Alvin Toffler, Sc.D., author...