A THREAD on thought provoking ideas by Alvin Toffler:
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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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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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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.
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.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or...
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or...
...profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.
It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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The world of today is as different from the world in which I was born as that world was from Julius Ceasar's.
I was born in the middle of human history, to date roughly.
Almost as much as happened since I was born as happened before.
The world of today is as different from the world in which I was born as that world was from Julius Ceasar's.
I was born in the middle of human history, to date roughly.
Almost as much as happened since I was born as happened before.
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The truly big intellectual—and financial—payoffs occur when two or more breakthroughs converge or are plugged together.
The truly big intellectual—and financial—payoffs occur when two or more breakthroughs converge or are plugged together.
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The current political system was never designed to deal with the high complexity and frenetic pace of a knowledge-based economy.
The current political system was never designed to deal with the high complexity and frenetic pace of a knowledge-based economy.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.
A library is a hospital for the mind.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
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The future is fluid, not frozen.
It is constructed by our shifting and changing daily decisions, and each event influences all others.
The future is fluid, not frozen.
It is constructed by our shifting and changing daily decisions, and each event influences all others.
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No wealth system exists in isolation.
A wealth system is only one component, although a very powerful one, of a still larger macrosystem whose other components—social, cultural, religious, political—are in constant feedback with it and with one another....
No wealth system exists in isolation.
A wealth system is only one component, although a very powerful one, of a still larger macrosystem whose other components—social, cultural, religious, political—are in constant feedback with it and with one another....
...Together they form a civilization or way of life roughly compatible with the wealth system.
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Narrowly focused specialists may be good at incremental innovation.
But breakthrough innovation is often the product of temporary teams whose members cross disciplinary boundaries—at a time when breakthroughs in every field are, in fact, blurring those very boundaries.
Narrowly focused specialists may be good at incremental innovation.
But breakthrough innovation is often the product of temporary teams whose members cross disciplinary boundaries—at a time when breakthroughs in every field are, in fact, blurring those very boundaries.
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“The new education must teach the individual how to classify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract & back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself.”
“The new education must teach the individual how to classify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract & back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself.”
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