Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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 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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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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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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