Alvin Toffler dies

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ecdh

climber
the east
Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 30, 2016 - 01:27am PT
I actually thought he died years ago.

Read his well known stuff in highschool (ie pre internet) and tho a lot sounded like silly 60s technofuturism it turned on a part of my brain that has never turned off again.

With McLuhan, Leary etc it was all stuff my teachers recommended and good for the growing mind. Well at least better than much of the dumb sh#t MTV and Murdoch wanted me to think.

So long Alvin.
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
Jun 30, 2016 - 07:07am PT
I was particularly impressed with his idea of the electronic cottage which would take us back to the preindustrial norm of working at home. Sure enough 40 years later, I'm teaching online at home. He also predicted the demise of the power of the nation state in favor of international corporations and that has surely to pass as well.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 30, 2016 - 07:25am PT
<He questioned the wisdom of the EU...in the late 1990s. The problem was that the EU
"still believes bigger is better." Toffler said this was a mistake: flexibility, diversity, and
micro-markets would rule the future, he said. > today's LA Times obit
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 30, 2016 - 07:39am PT
"Toffler said he sought not to be a fortuneteller, but to clarify the present. He readily acknow-
ledged that some critics found his ideas far-fetched, even crazy. But he and his wife
deliberately sought to occupy the fringe of public thought, he told the Guardian."

"We want people to think outside the conventional frame."

His wife survives him.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 30, 2016 - 07:44am PT
Future Shock

Predicts the pace of environmental change during the next thirty years and the ways in which the individual must face and learn to cope with personal and social change
Climberdude

Trad climber
Clovis, CA
Jun 30, 2016 - 07:47am PT
I learned about his book "Future Shock" and his ideas through a documentary that included scenes from a commune near where I grew up. I went to the same elementary school as the children from the commune and saw some of them features in some of the scenes. It is interesting how many of his predictions have happened, for good or bad.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jun 30, 2016 - 08:06am PT
I have a very smart friend who was way into him.

Guess I better get some reading material.

RIP Alvin.
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