Alvin Toffler, ‘Future Shock’ Adviser to Leaders, Dies at 87
- Described cultural shift to a knowledge and data-based economy
- With his wife Heidi Toffler, predicted ‘the Information Age’
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Alvin Toffler, the U.S. author whose visions of accelerating social change guided Chinese leaders, American politicians and business moguls through the best-selling books “Future Shock” and “The Third Wave,” has died. He was 87.
He died June 27 at his home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from Toffler Associates Inc., the Reston, Virginia-based consulting firm he co-founded with his wife, Heidi Toffler. No cause was given.