The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible ( the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties ), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls " subcults ", including what would in 2010 be described as " gangs.

Naisbitt and many other proponents of the theory of postindustrial societies argue that those megatrends lead to decentralization, weakening of the central government, increasing importance of local initiatives and direct democracy, changes in the hierarchy of the traditional social classes, development of new social movements and an increase in the power of consumers and the number of choices available to them ( Toffler even used the term " overchoice ").

Alvin Toffler claimed in his book Future Shock that adhocracies will get more common and are likely to replace bureaucracy.

Finally, from the late 1970s sociologists and anthropologists like Alvin Toffler ( author of Future Shock ), Daniel Bell and John Naisbitt have approached the theories of post-industrial societies, arguing that the current era of industrial society is coming to an end, and services and information are becoming more important than industry and goods.

Bertrand de Jouvenel's The Art of Conjecture in 1963 and Dennis Gabor's Inventing the Future in 1964 are considered key early works, and the first U. S. university course devoted entirely to the future was taught by futurist Alvin Toffler at The New School in 1966.

None of these phases are clearly recognized in the Toffler scheme, in part due to the prevalence of the latter phase amongst present-day pre-industrial societies.

It is different from bureaucracy ; like Toffler, Mintzberg considers bureaucracy a thing of the past, and adhocracy one of the future.

In the book, Toffler defines the term " future shock " as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies.

Capp was the Playboy interview subject in December 1965, in a conversation conducted by Alvin Toffler.

* Toffler, Alvin, Playboy Magazine ( December 1965 ) interview with Al Capp, pp. 89 – 100

" Later, a Lady Gaga video convinced Van Toffler of the tenability of a Beavis and Butt-Head revival: " I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point-of-view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring.

The title derives from the futurist work Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

* Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock.

MTV Networks president Van Toffler was reported as saying a revival of the series was being considered, and that the show's creators had been approached about the possibility.

The futurists Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler reported comprehensively on this phase of the history of non-lethal weapons in their 1993 book, War and Anti-War.

Toffler argues that the very nature of power is currently shifting.

Today, a The Third Wave ( Toffler ) of shifting power is taking place with wealth being overtaken by knowledge.

Reflecting the categories of power presented by Mann ( ideological, economic, military ), Toffler ( knowledge, wealth, violence ), Gramsci and others, Gee asserts that movements can use ' Idea Counterpower ', ' Economic Counterpower ' and ' Physical Counterpower ' to challenge the power of ruling elites.

The term was first popularized in 1970 by Alvin Toffler, and has since become often used in the theory of management of organizations ( particularly online organizations ), further developed by academics such as Henry Mintzberg.

In the book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler used the phrase super-industrial society to describe this type of society.

* Esther Dyson / George Gilder / George Keyworth / Alvin Toffler ( 1994 ) Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age.

Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970.

An early example is the book of Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, which Pine and Gilmore quote in their work.

In 1971, Toffler criticized how “ economists have great difficulty imagining alternatives to communism and capitalism ”, and how they could only envision the economy in the terms of scarcity of resources.

Later, many fans and critics saw Paul Henning's popular TV sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1962 –' 71 ) as owing much of its inspiration to Li ' l Abner, prompting Alvin Toffler to ask Capp about the similarities in a 1965 Playboy interview.

* Toffler, Alvin, Playboy Magazine ( December 1965 ) interview with Al Capp, pp. 89 – 100

Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, stated that " The incidental advancement of a religious mission, or the perceived endorsement of a religious message, is reasonably attributable to the individual aid recipients not the government, whose role ends with the disbursement of benefits.

Louis Feldman has stated that in the period from 1937 to 1980 at least 87 articles had appeared on the topic, the overwhelming majority of which questioned the total or partial authenticity of the Testimonium.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

In order to keep Arabs, whom he stated would never accept Israel as a Jewish state, from becoming a numerical majority in Israel, he proposed a plan allowing Arabs to voluntarily leave Israel and receive compensation for their property, and forcibly removing Arabs who refused.

In the aftermath of the Ogaden war, although Barre stated at the March 1983 Nonaligned Movement summit in New Delhi that Somalia had no designs on the Ogaden and was willing to negotiate with Ethiopia, the government of Somalia continued to call for self-determination for the ethnic Somali majority living in the Ogaden.

Eusebius ( c. 275 – 339 ) professed his own doubts, see also Antilegomena, and is the earliest direct testimony of such, though he stated that the majority supported the text, and by the time of Jerome ( c. 346-420 ) it had been mostly accepted as canonical.

" The majority opinion of the board stated that the inclusion of additional material on the DVD " facilitates wider consideration of the context of the film which results in the impact being no more than high.

He stated, " The vast majority of the allegations reported are untrue and unfounded " and " Beyond that, I will not dignify these private matters with any further public comment.

Indeed, in initiating his columns, Mbeki stated his view that the bulk of South African media sources did not speak for or to the South African majority, and stated his intent to use ANC Today to speak directly to his constituents rather than through the media.

The majority in Coker stated that " rape by definition does not include the death of or even the serious injury to another person.

Douglas joined the majority opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Roe, which stated that a federally enforceable right to privacy, " whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

As Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a five Justice majority, stated in Alden v. Maine,:

He also stated that the institutions decisions could be by majority vote, but that unanimous decisions were preferred, and that it would be elected by the members of the secondary Houses of Justice.

" Mark L. Strauss has stated that the majority of changes are " based on advances in biblical scholarship, linguistics, and archaeology ".

On the other hand, during discussions inside the Liberal Party Jean Rey stated on 13 March 1950: if the Catholics considered important the majority in favour of Leopold III ( 57, 68 % in Belgium as a whole ), the Walloons may also considered important their own opinion ( i. e. In Wallonia only ) against Leopold which had the same percentage.

This happened despite the fact that General Klaus Naumann ( Chairman of NATO Military Committee ) stated that Ambassador Walker stated in the NAC ( North Atlantic Council ) that the majority of violations was caused by the KLA.

The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: " It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so.

* A majority in the years 1945-49 stated National Socialism to have been a good idea but badly applied.

In reaching that decision, the Supreme Court stated in its majority opinion ( though in dicta ), " that the Tenure of Office Act of 1867, insofar as it attempted to prevent the President from removing executive officers who had been appointed by him by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, was invalid ".

Currently the Portuguese military forces number 44, 900 with the majority of the manpower allocated to the Army although its Chief of Staff, General José Ramalho, has already stated that more men are needed.

Microsoft's stated aim for NGSCB is to increase the security and privacy of computer users, but critics assert that the technology will not only fail to solve the majority of contemporary IT security problems, but also result in an increase in vendor lock-in and thus a reduction in competition in the IT marketplace.

There are times in which Cherry tends to be controversial ; for example, in 2003, Cherry stated that the majority of players wearing facial protection in the NHL are French-Canadians and Europeans ( though a study done by a lawyer confirmed Cherry's assertion ).