Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLERParenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERA library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
ALVIN TOFFLERYou’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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.
ALVIN TOFFLERDesigner’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.
ALVIN TOFFLERMost managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERIn describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLERA new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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.
ALVIN TOFFLERTo 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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