Quotes from Alvin Toffler

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

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.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

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.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

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