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Alvin Toffler literally invented the role of the futurist with the publication of his seminal work, Future Shock, creating an all new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture.
Throughout his long career, Alvin Toffler has remained one of the world's most prescient, insightful and influential voices in business and intellectual life. He has continued to produce creative ideas that define how we think about our world.

Time magazine wrote that he has "set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured."
 
What makes Alvin Toffler so extraordinary is that he asks questions nobody else has thought of and and then answers them by fundamentally redefining things in ways that keep making sense as the future unfolds. He's created several lasting thought paradigms—new frameworks for understanding ourselves and the way we change—that offer invaluable strategic advantage to those who are paying attention. And he pegs these frameworks with predictions and insights that consistently verify that his sense of direction is right on.
His most recent book has continued to build his legacy. Ten years in the writing, Revolutionary Wealth reimagines the nature of wealth and the paths to its creation.

In addition to Revolutionary Wealth and Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi (his wife and intellectual partner of 51 years) have written one significant book after another, including The Third Wave, Powershift and War and Anti-War.

REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH
Heidi and Alvin Toffler’s new book, Revolutionary Wealth, redefines some of the central features and assumptions of conventional economics. The real key, they argue, to the emerging global wealth system of the decades ahead are the "deep fundamentals" that lie behind the "fundamentals" of everyday business and economics. It defines the role of "prosumers," whose unpaid work as parents, volunteers, hobbyists and open-source software programmers pumps "free lunch" into the money economy. And it probes the future of Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. as America struggles to maintain its tenuous lead as the world’s sole superpower and most advanced economy.

The Contribution
Alvin Toffler has an unusual gift for defining the trends and forces that shape our future in ways that help audiences shape their own future in today’s knowledge-based economy. His global impact comes not just from successfully predicting individual changes, though he’s done that as well (see below). He understands the forces behind change and synthesizes this knowledge into a coherent, intellectual framework that can guide policy and decision-making.
Known for having forecast the acceleration of daily life, the decline of the nuclear family, the spread of loneliness and rise of religion, the Tofflers decades ago also anticipated cloning, virtual reality, niche markets, information overload, work-at-home, product customization, the "de-massification" of the mass media, the threat of terrorism and many other features of contemporary life.

In the area of management and business, the Tofflers forecast the shift from mass manufacturing to services and knowledge work, the digital revolution, the increasing importance of communication, the success of cable television, nano- and bio-technology, customized production, outsourcing, franchising, temporary organizational forms, networks and the waves of corporate restructuring—all literally decades before they became everyday news and any one had heard of Bill Gates or Silicon Valley.
Alvin’s bestsellers have influenced the Clinton White House, the Republican Congress, and many global corporations. He is a leading consultant to military and intelligence communities around the world.
While Future Shock launched the discipline of futurism, a subsequent book, The Third Wave, laid out the historical paradigm that now is the standard for understanding economic development as an evolution from agriculture, to industrialization, to knowledge and information as the primary sources for building wealth. According to Steve Case, The Third Wave struck like "a lightning bolt," led to his obsession with cyberspace and, ultimately, to his co-founding AOL.

In his classic 1993 book, War and Anti-War, Alvin predicted the rise of the ‘asymmetric,’ non-state-sponsored warfare that so preoccupies us today.

Today Alvin Toffler is routinely ranked among the world’s top advisors to management. Ted Turner has frequently and fulsomely credited the Toffler works with inspiring him to start CNN in 1980. J.D. Power cites the Tofflers as his "mentors".
Both the Tofflers are Distinguished Adjunct Professors at the National Defense University in Washington.

Credentials

    * Recipient, McKinsey Foundation Book Award for Contributions to Management Literature
    * Honorary co-chair, U.S. Committee for the United Nations Development Fund for Women
    * Visiting scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
    * Visiting professor, Cornell University
    * Former faculty member, New School for Social Research
    * Former White House correspondent
    * Former editor, Fortune magazine
    * Named an Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France
    * Recipient, Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
    * Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies
    * Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science