Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Tofflerwas an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 October 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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In Europe, countries like Finland, Sweden and Ireland are doing better than larger neighbors like Britain, France and Germany.
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South Korea is heavily dependent on exports and therefore accepts the general assumption that this trend will continue with no reversal.
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You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
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The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'
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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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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.