The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
ALVIN TOFFLERHuman beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
ALVIN TOFFLERIt is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLERDesigner’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 TOFFLERA new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLERIn describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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 TOFFLERPopular 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 TOFFLEROne 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 TOFFLEROne of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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 TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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