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
sideways linear backwards
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
future order change-management
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
dream vision needs
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
wisdom data thought-provoking
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
technology progress hazards
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
change endure ifs
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
real anger society
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
change life-changing process
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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.
running people imagination
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.
reading knowing
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
inspirational wisdom knowledge
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
change time stress
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.