Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin TofflerThe biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Alvin TofflerSociety needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
Alvin TofflerOur 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.
Alvin TofflerThe Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.
Alvin Toffler