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.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne 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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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The 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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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