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About the Alvin Toffler
Alvin Eugene Tofflerwas an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world’s outstanding futurists.
Toffler was an associate editor of Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact, which he termed “information overload”. In 1970, his first major book about the future, Future Shock, became a worldwide best-seller and has sold over 6 million copies.
He and his wife Heidi Toffler (1929-2019), who collaborated with him for most of his writings, moved on to examining the reaction to changes in society with another best-selling book, The Third Wave, in 1980. In it, he foresaw such technological advances as cloning, personal computers, the Internet, cable television and mobile communication. His later focus, via their other best-seller, Powershift, (1990), was on the increasing power of 21st-century military hardware and the proliferation of new technologies.
He founded Toffler Associates, a management consulting company, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, visiting professor at Cornell University, faculty member of the New School for Social Research, a White House correspondent, and a business consultant. Toffler’s ideas and writings were a significant influence on the thinking of business and government leaders worldwide, including China’s Zhao Ziyang, and AOL founder Steve Case.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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 manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
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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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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
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The great growling engine of change – technology.
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