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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.

Alvin Toffler

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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
To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
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
Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
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
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
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
The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Lying Responsibility Teaching
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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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Criticism Wife Years
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom

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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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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