Alvin Toffler Quotes
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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
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Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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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.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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