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
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
yesterday survival firsts
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'
change management easier
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
economy
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
advice simply stop taking
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
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South Korea is heavily dependent on exports and therefore accepts the general assumption that this trend will continue with no reversal.
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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