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John Naisbitt (2015 in New York)
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The futurologist John Naisbitt is dead. The American, who landed his first bestseller in the 1980s with his book "Megatrends", died on Thursday, as his family confirmed to the dpa news agency on Saturday.
At the age of 92 he fell asleep peacefully with his family in his adopted home in Austria in Velden am Wörthersee.
The Austrian press agency APA had previously reported Naisbitt's death.
Naisbitt advised US governments and coined the term "globalization".
In the world bestseller »Megatrends« he wrote, among other things, of globalization and a change in society that is increasingly based on information rather than industry.
Other bestsellers followed.
From the mid-1990s, Naisbitt focused on the rise of Asia, particularly China.
Naisbitt was born in Utah in 1929.
After studying politics at Cornell and Harvard Universities, he worked for Kodak and IBM as well as for US governments in the education sector.
He began his career as a trend researcher with a newsletter for which he evaluated newspaper articles from the USA.
The idea came to him when he saw newspapers from different parts of the country at a kiosk in Chicago, his wife Doris Naisbitt told the dpa.
"When he read the headlines, he had a picture of America in his mind's eye."
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