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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.

Alvin Toffler

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’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
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
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
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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Anger Real Society
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Science Talking Together
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
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
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

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