Author of 'Future Shock' dies aged 87

Alvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock and other works predicting social, economic and technological change, has died at the age of 87. BBC reported.

Toffler — who is also credited with having coined the term "information overload" to describe people's struggle to keep up with exponentially expanding data — died Monday night at his home in Los Angeles, Toffler Associates said in a statement it released at the request of Toffler's widow, Heidi Toffler.

No cause of death was given.

Toffler, a former newspaper reporter and editor, and one of his most famous assertions were these:

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

"If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy."

"Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life."

"It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources."

And perhaps most famous: "The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order."

Toffler is survived by his wife, Heidi, with whom he collaborated on many of his books.

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