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
writing editors errors
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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.
advice simply stop taking
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
accepts assumption continue dependent exports general korea south therefore trend
South Korea is heavily dependent on exports and therefore accepts the general assumption that this trend will continue with no reversal.
countries france ireland larger neighbors sweden
In Europe, countries like Finland, Sweden and Ireland are doing better than larger neighbors like Britain, France and Germany.
future order soon wrong
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order
cannot century learning
The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
cannot future illiterate
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.
american-author cannot future illiterate
The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
technology people favelas
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
mind library libraries-and-reading
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
years wife age
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
pace faster cycles
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
change girl boys
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