115 Quotes by Alvin Toffler

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.

We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.

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

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.