Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLERA new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Society 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.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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