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• 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

  Technology, Civilization, Political

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• 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

  Change, Breathing, Perspective

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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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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  Struggle, Tomorrow, Institutions

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• 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

  Errors, Recognition, Metaphor

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• Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Creative, Humanity

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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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  Country, Civilization, Appreciate

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• Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology

  1970 Future Shock.

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• Never in history has distance meant less.

  Alvin Toffler

  Distance

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Individual, Shock, Adaptable

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

  Alvin Toffler

  Parenting, Inspire, Parenthood

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

  Alvin Toffler

  Jobs, Play, People

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• It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

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  Mistake, Educational, Goal

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• 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, Men, Data

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

  Alvin Toffler

  Expression, Political, Economic

  John Perry Barlow @JPBarlow, twitter.com. August 19, 2011.

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• If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

  Alvin Toffler

  Facts, Substitutes, Ifs

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• Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

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  Inspirational, Management, Despise

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• I work virtually every waking hour.

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  Waking, Hours

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• Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!
  You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Thinking, Average, Add

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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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  Technology, Numbers, Together

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• 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

  Change, Girl, Boys

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• Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

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  Sausage, Profit, Knows

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• There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

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  Change, Limits, Humans

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

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  Kings, Cutting, Knights

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

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  Together, Next, Computer

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Loss

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