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 great growling engine of change - technology. Alvin Toffler growling technology change Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Alvin Toffler despise management inspirational If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether. Alvin Toffler cycles faster pace In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic. Alvin Toffler communication change fire 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. Alvin Toffler village technology people Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head. Alvin Toffler knights cutting kings To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. Alvin Toffler adaptable individual shock There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. Alvin Toffler limits humans change Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard Alvin Toffler girl change boys The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. Alvin Toffler computer next together If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production Alvin Toffler substitutes ifs facts In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. Alvin Toffler illiterate-person learning writing One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again. Alvin Toffler together-again skills civilization The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world. Alvin Toffler gay rights law 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. Alvin Toffler wife criticism years Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler editors errors writing We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision. Alvin Toffler vision experts people Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness. Alvin Toffler economic political expression The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. Alvin Toffler daughter mother loss Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. Alvin Toffler sovereign shock fiction
