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Alvin Toffler
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“…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.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Eco-Spasm Report (1975), as quoted in The Higher Taste (1983), p. 13
“Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1997 interview with John Perry Barlow, as reported on Twitter
“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. The acceleration of change in our time is, itself, an elemental force. This accelerative thrust has personal and psychological, as well as sociological, consequences.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Change is not merely necessary to life; it is life. By the same token, life is adaptation. There are, however, limits on adaptability. When we alter our life style, when we make and break relationships with things, places or people, when we move restlessly through the organizational geography of society, when we learn new information and ideas, we adapt; we live. Yet there are finite boundaries; we are not infinitely resilient. Each orientation response, each adaptive reaction exacts a price, wearing down the body's machinery bit by minute bit, until perceptible tissue damage results. Thus 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.”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source