The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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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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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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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