Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is 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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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