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Futures Studies Inspirational Quotes (74)

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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
Alvin Toffler
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
Alvin Toffler
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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.
Alvin Toffler
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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.
Alvin Toffler
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It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.
Alvin Toffler
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Never in history has distance meant less.
Alvin Toffler
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
Alvin Toffler
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If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
Alvin Toffler
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
Alvin Toffler
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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.
Alvin Toffler
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Alvin Toffler
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The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
Alvin Toffler
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
Alvin Toffler
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
Alvin Toffler
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
Alvin Toffler
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Alvin Toffler
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Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.
Alvin Toffler
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
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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I work virtually every waking hour.
Alvin Toffler
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Alvin Toffler
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler
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