The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERIn 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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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