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People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
- Alvin Toffler
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Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Nobody
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Family
#New
#Religion
#Search
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Man
#Overwhelmed
#Shock
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Jam
#Law
#Spread
#Thinner
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Possible
#Technology
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Parenting
#Preserve
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Society
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
- Alvin Toffler
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
- Alvin Toffler
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Merely
#Necessary
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
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#Doing
#Go
#Small Things
The great growling engine of change - technology.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Engine
#Great
#Technology
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Daring
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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.
- Alvin Toffler
#Data
#Intelligence
#Own
#Quantitative
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
#Computers
#Genetics
#Science
#Together
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.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Future
#Short
#Stress
#Time
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.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Industrial Revolution
#New
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.
- Alvin Toffler
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#Future
#Know
#Person
#Will
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