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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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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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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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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
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In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn 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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Never in history has distance meant less.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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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.
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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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The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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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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