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Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
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Journalist
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Sociologist
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New York City
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You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
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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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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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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 you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
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