It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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