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1928–2016 United States
Alvin Toffler (October 3, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload).
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Change is not merely necessary to life; it is life.
Future Shock (1970)
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
Future Shock (1970)
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
Future Shock (1970)
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.
Future Shock (1970)
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Future Shock (1970)
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
Future Shock (1970)
…the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.
The Eco-Spasm Report (1975)
Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.
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