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> [We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/we-will-only-keep-people-from-fleeing-the-countryside-into-urban/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

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## More by Alvin Toffler

> [“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/i-hear-and-i-forget-i-see-and-i-remember-i-do-and-i-understand/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/future-shock-is-the-shattering-stress-and-disorientation-that-we/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/a-new-civilization-is-emerging-in-our-lives-and-blind-men-everywhere/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/we-will-only-keep-people-from-fleeing-the-countryside-into-urban/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/designer-s-derive-their-rewards-from-inner-standards-of-excellence/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/most-managers-were-trained-to-be-the-thing-they-most-despise/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/each-new-machine-or-technique-in-a-sense-changes-all-existing/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Never in history has distance meant less.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/never-in-history-has-distance-meant-less/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/a-single-conversation-with-a-wise-man-is-better-than-ten-years-of/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/human-beings-were-held-accountable-long-before-there-were-corporate/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/if-we-do-not-learn-from-history-we-shall-be-compelled-to-relive-it/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/to-survive-to-avert-what-we-have-termed-future-shock-the-individual/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/in-describing-today-s-accelerating-changes-the-media-fire-blips-of/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/much-education-springs-from-some-image-of-the-future-if-the-image-of/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

> [Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-toffler/humanity-faces-a-quantum-leap-forward-it-faces-the-deepest-social/)

[Alvin Toffler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-toffler/)

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