Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLERA library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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’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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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