Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. -Alvin Toffler Technology
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change. -Alvin Toffler Change
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. -Alvin Toffler Society
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. -Alvin Toffler Future
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. -Alvin Toffler Future
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler Change
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. -Alvin Toffler Family
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. -Alvin Toffler Computers
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. -Alvin Toffler Business
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. -Alvin Toffler Change
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change. -Alvin Toffler Future
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. -Alvin Toffler Religion
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. -Alvin Toffler Intelligence
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. -Alvin Toffler Science
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. -Alvin Toffler Education
