It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Future 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.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The 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.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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