Alvin Toffler is a futurist and author. He wrote the bestsellers Future Shock and Third Wave. He is highly regarded worldwide by business and political leaders for his vision. Toffler wrote about the proliferation of computers, the advent of cable television, niche markets, the shift to work-at-home, corporate restructuring, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the shift to a global economy and dozens of other scenarios long before they even appeared in our nomenclature.