Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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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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