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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
Futurist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Every
Virtually
Waking
Hour
Hours

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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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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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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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Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
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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.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Never in history has distance meant less.
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Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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.
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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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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