Author

Alvin Toffler

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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.”— Alvin Toffler
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“To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.”— Alvin Toffler
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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.”— Alvin Toffler
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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.”— Alvin Toffler
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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.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”— Alvin Toffler
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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.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”— Alvin Toffler
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“Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.”— Alvin Toffler
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“The great growling engine of change - technology.”— Alvin Toffler