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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Alvin Toffler

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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
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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Civilization Political Technology
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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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Difficult Process Producers
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
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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Adaptable Individual Shock
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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Change Communication Fire
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits

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