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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.

Alvin Toffler

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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
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
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
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
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
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
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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

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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