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Alvin Toffler
(3 Oct 1928 - )
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Science Quotes by Alvin Toffler (4 quotes)
Each 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
— Alvin Toffler
Future Shock (1970).
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
— Alvin Toffler
Future Shock (1970).
That great, growling engine of change—technology.
— Alvin Toffler
Future Shock (1970).
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
— Alvin Toffler
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
