John Naisbitt (January 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies.
Naisbitt founded the Naisbitt China Institute, a non-profit, independent research institution studying the social, cultural and economic transformation of China located at Tianjin University.
He has been an adviser on agricultural development to the royal government of Thailand, former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, faculty member at Nanjing University in China, distinguished International Fellow at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia (the first non-Asian to hold this appointment), professor at Nankai University, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, and a member of the advisory Board of the Asia Business School, Tianjin, and has been the recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science.
Naisbitt died on April 8, 2021, at his secondary residence in Velden am Wörther See, Austria.
The book states, in bolded type, "The political left and right are dead; all the action is being generated by a radical center.