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...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...
...beguiles with a spray of mad moonlight and a whiff of tidal air. The latest expression of the baby boomers echoes in the surfeit of blossoming tummies, tired legs and aching backs of these regiments of expectant mothers. The party may even continue into the night. Frenetic Futurist Alvin Toffler believes that only a lack of medical technology binds women to the end of fertility. He writes: "Once child bearing is broken away from its biological base, nothing more than tradition suggests having children at an early age." The pregnancies of the future may be delayed until retirement, Toffler concludes...
...Lanier "No Problem," authors and others could easily imagine themselves at the console. Spurred by the new availability of word-processing programs for personal computers like Radio Shack, Apple and Atari, demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael Crichton (Congo) and Alvin Toffler (The Third Wave). Spy-Master Robert Ludlum endorses the Atari system in magazine ads. Though Novelist Irving Wallace still writes on a 1920-vintage portable, he has promised his secretary a processor...
...anything-goes school of writing is exemplified by other recent bestsellers: Judith Krantz's Princess Daisy, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren. Like Talese, Woodward and Armstrong are not only verbose but fond of dangling their modifiers and splitting their infinitives. Toffler specializes in hyperbolic jargon: "Vast changes in the techno-sphere and the info-sphere have converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified...