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 TOFFLERWe need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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