There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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