In Future Shock, the Tofflers anticipated the rise and significance of genetically engineered crops; in Window, Gingrich gushes about the possibility of “new strains of wheat that will function as legumes.” In Future Shock, the Tofflers float the idea that adolescence is on its way out the door—writing of “children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at fifty are children of twelve”; in Window, Gingrich writes, “it is conceivable that, by our grandchildren’s time, adolescence will have become a thing of the past.

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Meet Alvin and Heid Toffler, Newt Gingrich’s futurist mentors. They saw the power of telecommunications decades in advance, and envisioned a world in which gays could be parents, serial marriages would be optimal, and child labor would be back in vogue. (via motherjones)

FUTURE SHOCK