By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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