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
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.
change breathing perspective
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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.