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.
ALVIN TOFFLERWe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERWe need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
ALVIN TOFFLERPopular 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.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
ALVIN TOFFLERMuch 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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