There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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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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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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