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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.

Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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
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
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
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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Difficult Process Producers
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
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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Cycles Faster Pace
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
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
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
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
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
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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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
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

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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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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