Alvin Toffler Quotes

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

The world is so heavily influenced by technology, and it has started to feel like it's not on solid ground. The world has become unreliable, unknowable. Facts are vulnerable, and things you have come to rely on are no longer there.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Technology is not destiny.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Technology is a wonderful thing if you are putting it to use, less so if it is putting an end to your usefulness.

The central political problem of our time is how to adapt our venerable democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

I think that every generation will say that technology has gone too far. That's probably always going to be the case. We can't even imagine what our children will have in their adult lives.