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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
Futurist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
New York City
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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I work virtually every waking hour.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
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The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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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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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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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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