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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

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
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
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
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
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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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Change Communication Fire
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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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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