The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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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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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 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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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 is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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