Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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 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 TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur 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 TOFFLERMost managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLERMan has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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 TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERHumanity 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 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.
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