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...didn't consider were the distribution possibilities inherent in e-mail?especially of those perceived as obnoxious?and his message was forwarded around the world bearing addenda like, "What a tool box." Within days he had lost his job. "E-mail makes every user mass media," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "The power was put into the hands of a child and he had 15 seconds of global fame." Hope that FedEx package doesn't come C.O.D...
...onstage at their New York City press conference and concluded that this was a collision: the 60-year-old, scholarly and reserved titan with the 41-year-old embodiment of everything Net. But though they have different manners and tastes (Levin loves Camus's The Stranger; Case, Toffler's Third Wave), there is a marked similarity. Levin helped create the American cable industry, Case the nation's mass online connection. Each has survived failure. Last week their story looked new, but each man will tell you it's also as old as the history of technology. Geek meets geek. Geeks...
...looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin Toffler, claimed he discovered "the Internet before the Internet existed" and said his life was given to the cause of nonviolent social change. He was starting in on the CIA and "the psychological components of weapons systems" when Tricaud, his lawyer, politely told him to shut...
...looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin Toffler, claimed he discovered "the Internet before the Internet existed" and said his life was given to the cause of nonviolent social change. He was starting in on the CIA and "the psychological components of weapons systems" when Tricaud, his lawyer, politely told him to shut...
...Tofflers, who made this market in the first place, hope to cash in as well. To that end, FutureNet is talking with cable and broadcast channels and several Fortune 20-size companies about financial backing and developmental partnerships. The Tofflers have also recruited as executive partners TV producer Al Burton (Charles in Charge) and the tech-savvy film producer and entrepreneur Jeff Apple (In the Line of Fire). The tone of FutureNet's offerings, Toffler says, will be "not just for the digerati and not heavy. After all," he laughs, "it's television...