"The Second Wave Society is industrial and based……" — Alvin Toffler
"The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy."
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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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