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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

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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
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
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
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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Cycles Faster Pace
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
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
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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

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