Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 04. Oktober 1928 |
Geburtsort | New York City, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Alvin Eugene Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was 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. |
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.
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.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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.
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.
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
