Early this week, noted Futurologist and the author of the best selling book "Future Shock", Alvin Toffler died. He was 87. He predicted the rise of internet, decline of nuclear families among other things. As early as in 1960s he had warned of "information overload". I've copied some of his observations that had made me stop and think deeper.
- It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources
- 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.
- Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life
- Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn
- If you don't have a strategy, you are part of someone else's strategy
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