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.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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To 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.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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