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.
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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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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.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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 illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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