Future Shock
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"Future Shock" Quotes

By Alvin Toffler

nonfiction | 430 pages | Published in NaN

ISBN_13: 9780553101508

Quotes

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

The future always arrives too fast and in the wrong order.

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.

Alvin Toffler

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Alvin Toffler

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Alvin Toffler

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.

Alvin Toffler

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.

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler