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
ocean glasses sea
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.
technology strategy ecommerce
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
gay rights law
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
space information substitutes
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
change endure ifs
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
education learning chinese
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
change life-changing process
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
doe strategy defeated
If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
running people imagination
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.
future order change-management
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
technology progress hazards
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
science talking together
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
education teaching illiterate-person
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
technology civilization political
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.