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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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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Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
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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.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
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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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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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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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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 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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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