Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We… — 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
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
