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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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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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