Alvin Toffler - Change Quotes

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The rate of change has implications quite apart from, and sometimes more important than, the directions of change.

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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.

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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

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

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The management of changes is the effort to convert certain possibles into probables, in pursuit of agreed-on preferables.

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[a] great, growling engine of change — technology.

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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Alvin Toffler