"In the year 2000 an illiterate person will……" — Alvin Toffler
"In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again."
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55 Quotes by Alvin Toffler
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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not…
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to…
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without…
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the…
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as…
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