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Business will be based on temporary units – Toffler

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Published 21 September, 2009, 09:15

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Celebrated futurist Alvin Toffler has forecasted “death and bankruptcy” to the existing organizational institutes. Toffler elaborated on this and other predictions on where society is heading to RT.

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