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"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."

Alvin Toffler on Technology

More quotes about Technology

  • "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

    Albert Einstein on Technology

  • "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

    Oscar Wilde on Technology

  • "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

    Arthur C. Clarke on Technology

  • "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

    John F. Kennedy on Technology

  • "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

    John F. Kennedy on Technology

More quotes by Alvin Toffler

  • "My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace."

  • "To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."

  • "Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

  • "Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."

  • "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."

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