OUR FOUNDERS World-renowned futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler founded Toffler Associates to help organizations understand and succeed in the rapidly changing global society. The couple has been exploring the future for over 40 years, and their ideas form the backbone of how our firm operates. Each of the Tofflers' books — including such classics as Future Shock, The Third Wave and War and Anti-War — has been hailed for originality, clarity and unusual insight into the challenges and opportunities racing toward us. Their latest book, Revolutionary Wealth, is shaping the thinking of world, business and government leaders today. The Tofflers' work has made an indelible impact on business, government, military affairs, education, the arts and various social sciences.  As a consultant for AT&T, Alvin prepared a secret report that foresaw and advocated for the breakup of the communications giant 12 years before its divestiture. The report, later published as The Adaptive Corporation, is a management standard. On the political front, the Tofflers have influenced major figures such as Kim Dae-jung, Newt Gingrich and others throughout the ideological spectrum. During the 1980s the couple consulted with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as he devised the policy of perestroika. The Third Wave, meanwhile, was a key source of inspiration for the reform program that sparked modern China's amazing rise. In their books and lectures, the Tofflers have anticipated countless features of contemporary life, from outsourcing and the threat of terrorism to cloning and product customization — all years before these became commonplace. The central thesis of their work, the rise of a knowledge-based new economy, has become accepted currency among governments, economists and thinkers around the world. For more information on the Tofflers, please visit www.alvintoffler.net	Clockwise from above: Alvin and Heidi Toffler Alvin Toffler on the Tavis Smiley show, 2006 The Tofflers with then-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich Alvin Toffler confers with Chinese leader Zhou Ziyang in Beijing The Tofflers' latest book