Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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.
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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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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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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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