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

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

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critic...

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Future Shock

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting...

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The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they a...

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

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Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does ...

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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about...

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You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things...

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

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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things g...

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, com...

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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industria...

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Alvin Toffler

Writer

Born: 1928-10-04

Died: 2016-06-27

Alvin Toffler (October 3, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). His later focus was on the increasing power of 21st century military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism.More