One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Alvin Toffler More Quotes by Alvin Toffler More Quotes From Alvin Toffler The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Alvin Toffler change-management future order You cannot get a new economy without a new society. Alvin Toffler economy The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy. Alvin Toffler mass-destruction organization wind Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb Alvin Toffler chinese learning education Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. Alvin Toffler wisdom inspirational knowledge We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows. Alvin Toffler vision dream needs If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does. Alvin Toffler strategy defeated doe Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. Alvin Toffler disorientation change-management shock Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets Alvin Toffler being-alone loneliness people Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler ocean sea sky Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways Alvin Toffler linear sideways backwards Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. Alvin Toffler life-changing change process 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. Alvin Toffler corporations change country The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete. Alvin Toffler political technology civilization Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it. Alvin Toffler breathing perspective change The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. Alvin Toffler recognition metaphor errors Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. Alvin Toffler future change spiritual Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment. Alvin Toffler future data men 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. Alvin Toffler assassins suggestions ideas Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. Alvin Toffler betray youth spring
