It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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 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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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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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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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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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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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