Alvin Toffler Quotes about Change

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

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.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

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

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

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.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

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

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

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