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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Cutting Kings Knights
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Gay Law Pornography Rights
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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Anger Real Society
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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.
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Criticism Wife Years
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Civilization Political Technology
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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