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
civilization creative humanity
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.
process producers difficult
The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
struggle tomorrow crux
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
giving birth mates
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
technology numbers together
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.
law raspberries culture
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
spring youth betray
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
change country corporations
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
inspirational management despise
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
sides take-a-chance daring
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
technology
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
suffering information individual
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
civilization skills together-again
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
business thinking textiles
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.