You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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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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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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