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I work virtually every waking hour.

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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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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 control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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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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Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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