Alvin Toffler

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.

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets_x000D_ _x000D_ loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today_x000D_ _x000D_ the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the_x000D_ _x000D_ techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

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.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

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

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.