Alvin Toffler citáty
Alvin Toffler
Dátum narodenia: 4. október 1928
Dátum úmrtia: 27. jún 2016
Alvin Toffler je americký futurológ, sociológ, novinár a publicista. Alvin Toffler spolu s maželkou Heidi Tofflerovou založil a vedie strategickú poradenskú firmu Toffler Associates.
Citáty Alvin Toffler
„Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.“
— Alvin Toffler, kniha Future Shock
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
Zdroj: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
„Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.“
1997 interview with John Perry Barlow, as reported on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/JPBarlow/status/104518695333789697
„If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.“
— Alvin Toffler, kniha Future Shock
Future Shock (1970), ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=p1t2SOENHWYC&q=%22with+its+faster+pace+of+life+has+accelerated+the+family+cycle+super+industrialism+now+threatens+to+smash+it+altogether%22&pg=PA258#v=snippet
„…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.“
The Eco-Spasm Report (1975). Quoted in The Higher Taste, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1983, p. 13