10 Audio Listening Quotations from Writer, Futurist and Businessman, Alvin Toffler (1928-2016).
#1. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
#2. The great growling engine of change - technology.
#3. Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
#4. Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
#5. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
#6. One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
#7. 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.
#8. 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.
#9. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
#10. 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.