Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
