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Alvin Toffler
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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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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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