Word: toffler
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Donaldson cites Harvard's denial of tenure to Goodpaster and Barbara Ley Toffler--its two associate professors specializing in ethics--as evidence of Harvard's lack of commitment to an ethics program. "I haven't seen them looking around for other people," he says...
Goodpaster and Toffler, along with Laura Nash, a former assistant professor of business administration and researcher of ethics case studies, are well-respected by their colleagues in the field of business ethics, says Hoffman. Nash moved to the Kennedy School when she was not offered tenure across the river...
...electronic cottage. Just four years ago, Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave described a halcyon future when people would work at home connected to the office by inexpensive computers. No more commuting. No more expensive office buildings. Higher productivity since employees would not be constantly interrupted as they are at the office. Wrote Toffler: "Our entire economy would be altered almost beyond our recognition...
...fanatics. The most notable of these mininetworks, and a prime source of informed opinions about software, is an international collection of more than 1,200 users called EIES, for Electronic Information Exchange System. Operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, EIES has counted among its membership Author Alvin Toffler and former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson. Brand will tap the expertise of EIES and invite its entire community to recommend favorite pieces of software. Whole Earth staffers will then test the programs, weeding out items that are not first-rate. There will be few negative entries in the catalogue...
...great megalopolis, the marketplace of information, about to be doomed by the new technology? Another futurist, Alvin Toffler, suggests at least a trend in that direction. In his 1980 book, The Third Wave, he portrays a 21st century world in which the computer revolution has canceled out many of the fundamental changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution: the centralization and standardization of work in the factory, the office, the assembly line. These changes may seem eternal, but they are less than two centuries old. Instead, Toffler imagines a revived version of pre-industrial life in what he has named...