Though Future Shock was written in 1970, Future Shock is very much about the present. It is about what happens to individuals and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Exploring hidden impacts of change, Alvin and Heidi Toffler show how it affects the products we buy, the communities we live in, the organizations we create, the mass media we exploit, and even our patterns of friendship and love. They describe the super-industrial economy, the future forms of family, and the break-up of our society into more temporary and competing subcultures; and how this dramatically influences our life styles, ability to make rational decisions, and even our health.

The Third Wave moves across an astonishing range of material. It explores such diverse subjects as the gyrating economy, the personality of the future, “blip culture,” the post-nuclear family, the “electronic cottage,” the crack-up of the nation-state, and the shift from the obsolete politics of today to twenty-first century democracy. The result is a stunning synthesis that will shatter our deepest assumptions.

While headlines today focus on the tremendous shifts of power at the global level, Toffler says that equally significant, but largely unnoticed, shifts of power are taking place in the intimate, everyday world we inhabit – the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones. Power shifts are transforming finance, politics, and the media, together creating a now radically different society.

War and Anti-War describes how the U.S. military went from drug-drenched defeat and demoralization in Vietnam to high performance in the Gulf-a story with lessons for many businesses today, as they, too, restructure in preparation for the twenty-first century. In this book. The Tofflers unveil a new world map and introduce such striking concepts as the “revolt of the rich” and the new division of world power among three great civilizations, those of the past, present and future. 

Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our “third job” – the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. 

Creating a New Civilization is the book former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, held up before Congress and urged all members to read. Gingrich credited this book with having shaped his own philosophy and vision for the future. The Tofflers are influencing politicians in both our political parties who are looking beyond the next election toward a twenty-first-century America. For all Americans who want to improve the quality of life for themselves, and their children, Creating a New Civilization is an exhilarating must-read.

In this book, the Tofflers examine the shape and quality of our culture. Their inquiry-a survey of the arts in relation to the university, business, artists and managers, patrons, the government-tells a great deal about the nature of our affluent society, and reveals the preconditions for the subsequent emergence of the counterculture. Moreover, the Tofflers propose a practical program for subsidy to the arts that today, more than ever, warrants serious consideration.

Previews and Premises offers readers a wealth of original, often startling proposals for dealing with the public crises facing us today-as well as rare and revealing insights into the mind of one of our most important and influential thinkers. In a lively question-and-answer format, Alvin Toffler gives us his provocative views on the economy, the future of work, the conflict with Japan, the role of women, the shifting balance of racial power on the planet, the changing nature of personal identity, the impact of video, the computer in politics, and the future of both socialism and capitalism.

A fascinating case study of the Bell System, the Toffler Report foresaw and advocated the breakup of AT&T a dozen years before divestiture, explained why it was unavoidable, and predicted the changes still at work in the communications marketplace today. Added to the original, uncut version of the document, the Tofflers up-to-the-minute commentary, further recommendations, and new information result in a strategic handbook for corporate decision making on all key issues.

In 1970, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler were thrust upon the world stage by the publication of their sensational bestseller, Future Shock – the title describing a condition whose characteristic “shattering stress and disorientation” would inevitably be brought about by “too much change in too short a period of time.” Whether the Toffler’ warnings about the acceleration of technological and social change have proved prophetic or apocryphal, their insights were – and continue to be – potent catalysts for contemplating our probable, possible, and preferred visions of the future. Dare, then, to journey into all the potential futures, guided by the extraordinary insights of the world’s foremost thought leaders who in these pages collectively chart the course to an abundant future for all.

Politicians and pundits are busy telling us that the key problem today is inflation… or depression… or both. It’s not. Today’s economic crisis is different from any we have ever experienced. It is part of the overall breakdown of industrial society and the birth of a new civilization. It is an eco-spasm.

We have for too long overlooked a powerful psychological truth: All education springs from images of the future and all education creates images of the future. This is the organic connection between education and change… This book makes the connection visible.

Such figures as Alvin Toffler, Margaret Mead, Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster and more, discuss the future of civilization.