Alvin Toffler Quotes - Page 2

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• Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

  Alvin Toffler

  Sideways, Linear, Backwards

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• 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

  Spring, Youth, Betray

  Alvin Toffler (1974). “Learning for tomorrow: the role of the future in education”, Vintage Books USA

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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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  Change, Men, Overwhelmed

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• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

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  Education, Learning, Chinese

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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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  Powerful, Coaching, Dimensions

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

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  Wisdom, Data, Thought Provoking

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• The great growling engine of change - technology.

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  Change, Technology, Growling

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• 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.

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  Writing, Learning, Illiterate Person

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• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Progress, Hazards

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

  Alvin Toffler

  Law, Culture, Jam

  "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book edited by Ted Goodman, 2016.

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• Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

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  Space, Information, Substitutes

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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. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

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  Impact, Anchors, Roots

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• If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

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  Doe, Strategy, Defeated

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• Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

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  Disorientation, Shock, Change Management

  Horizon, Summer 1965

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• You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

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  Economy

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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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  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

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• A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

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  Mind, Library, Libraries Books And Reading

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• We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

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  Dream, Vision, Needs

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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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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  Process, Difficult, Producers

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• 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.

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  Civilization, Skills, Together Again

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• It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

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  Sides, Take A Chance, Daring

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• 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

  Wind, Organization, Mass Destruction

  "Future Speak". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. March 1, 1999.

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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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  Change, Country, Corporations

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• 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.

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  People, Vision, Experts

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• 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.

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  Ocean, Sea, Sky

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