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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

Alvin Toffler

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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
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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Anger Real Society
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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Betray Education Spring Youth
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
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
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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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Destiny Future Responsibility
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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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Science Talking Together
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

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