black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Alvin Toffler

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Destiny Future Responsibility
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Humans Limits
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Knows Profit Sausage
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Experts People Vision
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Cycles Faster Pace
In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Communication Fire
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Breathing Change Perspective
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Dream Needs Vision
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Lying Responsibility Teaching
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Civilization Men Trying
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Computer Next Together
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Firsts Survival Yesterday
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Ecommerce Strategy Technology
Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Information Space Substitutes

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alvin Toffler Quotes