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.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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