Character Quote by Alvin Toffler

“Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.”

Alvin Toffler

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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb”

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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a…

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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

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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…

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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 the task, not the…

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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.…

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Never in history has distance meant less.

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“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb”

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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we…

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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

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