The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
ALVIN TOFFLERMost 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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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