We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLERMuch 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 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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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