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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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
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New York City
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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 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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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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