Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
"Alvin Toffler" is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, Telecommunication/communication revolution and technological singularity.
Toffler is a former associate editor of Fortune (magazine)/Fortune magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact through effects like information overload. He moved on to examining the reaction to Social change/changes in society. His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st-century military hardware, the proliferation of new technologies, and capitalism.
He founded Toffler Associates, a management consulting company, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, visiting professor at Cornell University, faculty member of the The New School/New School for Social Research, a White House correspondent, an editor of Fortune magazine, and a business consultant.
Toffler is married to Heidi Toffler, also a writer and futurist. They live in the Bel Air, Los Angeles, California/Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California, just north of Sunset Boulevard.
The couple’s only child, Karen Toffler, (1954–2000), died at the age of 46 after more than a decade suffering from Guillain–Barré syndrome.
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The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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.
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.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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