In 1970, prior to the technological revolution that resulted in the information age in which we now all reside, Alvin Toffler, described by some as “the world’s most famous futurologist,” penned his classic book Future Shock, which warned that we were entering an era of “too much change in too short a time.”1 Following up a decade later with The Third Wave, Toffler further described this as a process of succeeding waves of technological innovation, each of which begins, reaches a peak, and then starts to decline as the next wave performs the same process.2 Toffler’s first wave—spanning three
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