Death of Alvin Toffler: Get set for further future shocks

Kyran Fitzgerald discusses the legacy of the late Alvin Toffler, the social futurist and business forecaster who died last month.

How many of us are able to hazard an informed guess about what is coming next? Not that many, if truth be told.

A fortnight ago, America lost one of its leading thinkers following the death in his sleep of a man at the age of 87 who during his life rarely rested.