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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
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New York City
New York
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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.
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Never in history has distance meant less.
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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.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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.
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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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.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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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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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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