Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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