One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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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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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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