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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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