In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLERFuture 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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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