Books: Blip Reading

THE THIRD WAVE by Alvin Toffler Morrow; 544 pages; $14.95

How the future flies. Ten years have already passed since Alvin Toffler published his bestselling Future Shock and emerged as the world's best-known manipulator of the fast-forward. Traveling the globe, lecturing businessmen and collecting the fuzz that grows on the inside of think tanks, Toffler became an orbiting Walter Winchell. Bulletins from the leading edge beamed down on Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. The effect could be stimulating but, too often, Toffler's redundant delivery and overheated prose turned...

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