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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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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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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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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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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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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 control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
Alvin Toffler
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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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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