black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Individual Information Suffering
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 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
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Men Overwhelmed
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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Birth Giving Mates
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
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Challenges Civilization Criticism
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Coaching Dimensions Powerful
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Data Emotional Running
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Gay Law Pornography Rights
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Despise Inspirational Management
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Future Spiritual
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Again Civilization Good Skills Together
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

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alvin Toffler Quotes