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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

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
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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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Cycles Faster Pace
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
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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Lying Responsibility Teaching
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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Change Corporations Country
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
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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Breathing Change Perspective
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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
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
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom

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