Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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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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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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