There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Designer’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.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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