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The end of a year and the beginning of another is a natural time to ponder what may lie ahead of us both as individuals and as a society. This year, there appears to be great anxiety about the future, ...

Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose million-selling "Future Shock" and other books anticipated the disruptions and transformations brought about by the rise of digital technology, ...