Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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To 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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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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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. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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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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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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