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.
ALVIN TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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 responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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