Quotes by Alvin Toffler

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.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

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.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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

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