Carlos Rabassa carnen@mac.com writes:
Who is the speaker in this video_
¿Quién es el orador en este video?
As the Wikipedia entry that you reference indicates, Alvin Toffler is the author of _The Third Wave_ [1], a work which described the evolution of information society as a sequence of waves--agrarian, industrial, and post-industrial. This book was also the basis for a Japanese NHK television documentary in the early 1980's.
I watched that documentary back in circa 1981, and was fascinated especially with Toffler's discussion of telecommuting. There is an interesting nytimes.com article [2] describing the "star treatment" that Toffler got in Japan in 1980-81.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
[1] Toffler, Alvin. _The Third Wave._ New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1980. Print. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(book).
[2] McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Authors Get Star Treatment in Japan." _The New York Times,_ 20 Feb. 1981. Web. 17 Aug. 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/20/books/publishing-authors-get-star-treatment-in-japan.html.