Word: toffler
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...military's microsensors and omniscient rows of video monitors may be expensive, but much of the technology needed to attack information systems is low-cost (a computer, a modem), widely available (a willing hacker) and just as efficient (one phone call). "It's the great equalizer," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "You don't have to be big and rich to apply the kind of judo you need in information warfare. That's why poor countries are going to go for this faster than technologically advanced countries." An infowarrior could be anyone in the checkout line at the local computer store...
...truly a wonder. Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization. This is the guy who hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable-TV sermons about "Renewing American Civilization" with brazen plugs for corporations that contributed to his funding operation, GOPAC. He wants to destroy the national endowments while promoting tax breaks for developers...
...actual and begin to explore the possible that life's infinities begin to reveal themselves to us." Deep, eh? The musicians on Headtravel certainly take themselves and their music seriously, and that's not altogether a bad thing. It makes for excellent music, and you can disregard the Alvin Toffler futuristic cyber-Utopia talk...
Gingrich's personal association with Toffler dates from the early 1970s, when he, then an assistant history professor at West Georgia College, went to Chicago to attend a seminar the author was giving. The young academic introduced himself to the best-selling Toffler; this acquaintance blossomed into a friendship after Gingrich was elected to Congress. Through the years the Gingriches began spending considerable time with Toffler and his wife of 44 years, Heidi, who has collaborated on her husband's books without, until recently, accepting byline credit. Over the recent New Year's holidays, the Congressman and his wife Marianne...
What is it about Toffler's and Gilder's futuristic work that has so attracted a conservative Republican Congressman from the South? The surprising -- and, to some, unsettling -- answer seems to be the cataclysmic social revolutions that both authors blithely, indeed joyfully, say have already begun...