3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler 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.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler 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.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler 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.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler 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.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
