Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERIt 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
ALVIN TOFFLERFuture 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERIn describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERSociety 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.
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.
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