Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou’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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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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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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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