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The great growling engine of change - technology.
Alvin Toffler
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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
Futurist
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Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
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New York City
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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.
Alvin Toffler
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 instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
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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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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
Alvin Toffler
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler
If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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