We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Designer’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.
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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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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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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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