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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
Virtually
Waking
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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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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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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
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Our 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.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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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 control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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.
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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