Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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