The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERTo survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
ALVIN TOFFLERMost managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
ALVIN TOFFLERWe need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLERSociety 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 TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERMan has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERMy 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.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLERWe 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 TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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