Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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