He wrote this 58 years ago.
It described my entire reality before it happened.
 
Alvin Toffler saw it coming — the digital revolution, the collapse of traditional structures, the rise of remote life, gig economies, and knowledge as currency. In The Third Wave, written in 1980, he described my world in 2038 with unsettling accuracy. My father left me this first edition, first print copy, labeled Artifact 0010, and bookmarked a chapter called “The Demassified Society.”
 
His note said:
“If you want to understand what happened, start here.”
 
We now live in what Toffler might’ve called the Fourth Wave — where AI, surveillance, and digital identity have fully absorbed the physical world. This artifact isn’t just a warning — it’s an origin point. And I’m starting to think my father wasn’t just preparing me to survive it… he was asking me to challenge it.
 
Includes:
1980 original first edition, with yellowing pages and underlined passages
My father's original post-it note
Handwritten note from me
 
This book predicted the storm. The question is: what do we do now that we’re in it?