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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

Alvin Toffler

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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
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