magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact, which he termed "information overload". In 1970, his first major book about the future, Future Shock, became a worldwide best-seller and has sold over 6 million copies.

He and his wife Heidi Toffler (1929-2019), who collaborated with him for most of his writings, moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society with another best-selling