Born in New York in 1928 and graduated from New York University in 1949,he is a former Associate Editor of Fortune magazine and served as visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and visiting professor at Cornell University.At the New school for Social Research in 1966 he taught one of the first courses devoted entirely to the future. He is the editor of The Futurists and Learning for Tomorrow and author of The Culture Consumer(1964),Future Shock(1970),The Third Wave(1980)and Previews and Premises (1983). Born in New York in 1928 and graduated from New York University in 1949, he is a former Associate Editor of Fortune magazine and served as visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and visiting professor at Cornell University. At the New school for Social Research in 1966 he taught one of the first courses devoted entirely to the future. He is the editor of The Futurists and Learning for Tomorrow and author of The Culture Consumer(1964), Future Shock(1970), The Third Wave(1980) and Previews and Premises (1983)