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
sausage profit knows
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
change technology growling
The great growling engine of change - technology.
mass-destruction media wind
The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.
change spiritual future
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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.
space information substitutes
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
writing learning illiterate-person
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
change men overwhelmed
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
technology strategy ecommerce
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
parenting inspire parenthood
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
education learning chinese
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
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.