Did Alvin Predict the All-Consuming AI Avalanche?

By Elke Porter | WBN News Global | May 22, 2025
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Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler’s passing—he died in his sleep on June 27, 2016, at his home in Los Angeles—and oh, how we wish he were still around to witness the digital circus we've become. Because if there were ever a moment for a man who predicted “too much change in too short a period of time,” this is it.

Back in 1970, Toffler, the grooviest futurist with the slickest sideburns in town, dropped a bombshell book called Future Shock. He warned us that too much change, too fast, would turn our brains into scrambled eggs. Well folks, welcome to the breakfast buffet—because here comes the AI omelet with a side of existential panic.

Toffler spoke of an "avalanche of change." But even he couldn't have predicted ChatGPT explaining quantum mechanics to your dog, or your grandma accidentally generating Renaissance-style selfies on MidJourney. Remember when your great-aunt Judy struggled with the TV remote? Now she’s arguing with her AI co-pilot about whether pickleball counts as cardio.

AI tools are hitting us faster than avocado toast trends. There's an app for everything. Some make art, some write code, some flirt with you (and maybe ghost you later). Every week, there's a "game-changing" new model released by companies with names that sound like rejected Bond villains—Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral. Last week, someone trained an AI to negotiate car deals better than your uncle Phil. Yesterday, someone trained one to rewrite Shakespeare in Gen Z slang.

Meanwhile, everyone claims they're an AI expert. Spoiler: they’re not. Nobody is. The AI field is changing so fast, if you blink, your LinkedIn bio is already outdated. You just mastered GPT-4? Congrats—GPT-5 is probably whispering stock tips to your toaster right now.

We’re not in the Information Age anymore. We’re in the “Help! My smart fridge is writing poetry about my cheese drawer” era. And don’t get too comfy—what’s cutting edge at 9:00 AM will be obsolete by lunch, and embarrassing by dinner.

Toffler called this future shock. Today, we call it Tuesday.

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