Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler is 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). His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st century military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism.

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• Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
  • Future Shock (1970), Introduction

• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
  • Future Shock (1970), ch. 18

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

• The future always arrives too fast, and in the wrong order.

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• Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.
  • Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy as quoted by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970), ch. 18