To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
Alvin TofflerThe customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
Alvin TofflerEach 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.
Alvin Toffler