It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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