In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
-
-
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
ALVIN TOFFLER -
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLER -
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 TOFFLER