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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.

Alvin Toffler

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
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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
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
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
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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 customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Difficult Process Producers
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Civilization Political Technology
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
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting

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