The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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 library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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