We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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 first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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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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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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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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