The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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 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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Our 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.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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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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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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