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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

Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Betray Education Spring Youth
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Change Corporations Country
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
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Breathing Change Perspective
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Adaptable Individual Shock
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Destiny Future Responsibility
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

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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