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22 quotes by Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler (born October 4, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution and technological singularity. Toffler is a former associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact through effects like information overload. He moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society. His later focus has been on the increasing...
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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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.

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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 shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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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... →

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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological... →

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