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 TOFFLERTo 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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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One 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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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.
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Society 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.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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