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.
yesterday survival firsts
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
sideways linear backwards
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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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.
technology strategy ecommerce
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
technology progress hazards
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
errors recognition metaphor
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.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
technology
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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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.
expression political economic
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.