black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
ALVIN TOFFLER

Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Corporations Country
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Humans Limits
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.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Science Talking Together
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Change Changing Life Process
To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
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
The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Lying Responsibility Teaching
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Civilization Men Trying
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Hazard Progress Technology
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Economic Expression Political
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Chance Daring Sides Take

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alvin Toffler Quotes