Quotes on Future Shock

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.

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.

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.

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

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