Editing Alvin Toffler (section)

==Critical assessment ==
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[[Accenture]], the management consultancy firm, identified Toffler in 2002 as being among the most influential voices in business leaders, along with [[Bill Gates]] and [[Peter Drucker]].<ref name=Accenture>{{cite web|title=Accenture Study Yields Top 50 'Business Intellectuals' Ranking of Top Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics |url=http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=3898 |publisher=Accenture |access-date=January 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315033017/http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enWeb&xd=_dyn%2Fdynamicpressrelease_487.xml |archive-date=March 15, 2006 |date=May 22, 2002 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Toffler has also been described in a ''[[Financial Times]]'' interview as the "world's most famous futurologist".<ref name="ft">{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/af33b982-2dbd-11db-93ad-0000779e2340.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/af33b982-2dbd-11db-93ad-0000779e2340.html |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lunch with the FT: He has seen the future|work=Financial Times|date=August 18, 2006}}</ref> In 2006, the ''[[People's Daily]]'' classed him among the 50 foreigners who shaped modern China,<ref name="china501" /><ref name="china502" /> which one U.S. newspaper notes made him a "guru of sorts to world statesmen."<ref name=Denver/> Chinese Premier and General Secretary [[Zhao Ziyang]] was greatly influenced by Toffler.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gewirtz|first=Julian|date=2019|title=The Futurists of Beijing: Alvin Toffler, Zhao Ziyang, and China's "New Technological Revolution," 1979–1991|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|language=en|volume=78|issue=1|pages=115–140|doi=10.1017/S0021911818002619|issn=0021-9118|doi-access=free}}</ref> He convened conferences to discuss ''The Third Wave'' in the early 1980s, and in 1985 the book was the No. 2 best seller in China.<ref name=nytobit/>

Author [[Mark Satin]] characterizes Toffler as an important early influence on [[Radical centrism|radical centrist]] political thought.<ref>Satin, Mark (2004). ''Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now''. Westview Press and Basic Books, p.&nbsp;30. {{ISBN|978-0-8133-4190-3}}.
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[[Newt Gingrich]] became close to the Tofflers in the 1970s and said ''The Third Wave'' had immensely influenced his own thinking and was "one of the great seminal works of our time."<ref name=nytobit/>