Future Shock 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

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

  Orson Welles

  Feelings, Too Much, Sickness

  "Encore: 'Future Shock' 40 Years Later". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 30, 2016.

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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Education, Teaching, Illiterate Person

  "The Portrait of a Future Leader" by Anne Loehr, www.wired.com. June 18, 2015.

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• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Moving, Men

  "Future Shock". Book by Alvin Toffler, 1970.

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Spiritual, Future

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

  Alvin Toffler

  Disorientation, Shock, Change Management

  Horizon, Summer 1965

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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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• Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

  Alvin Toffler

  Suffering, Information, Individual

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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Time, Stress

  1970 Future Shock.

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Men, Overwhelmed

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• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Coaching, Dimensions

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. 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. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

  Alvin Toffler

  Impact, Anchors, Roots

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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Business, Thinking, Textiles

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• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  William Gibson

  Past, Japan, Brain

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

  Alvin Toffler

  Individual, Shock, Adaptable

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

  Alvin Toffler

  Together, Next, Computer

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Sides, Take A Chance, Daring

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Country, Corporations

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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

  Wisdom, Data, Thought Provoking

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Writing, Errors, Editors

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• Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Sovereign, Fiction, Shock

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