Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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