Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERMy 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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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