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.
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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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