The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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 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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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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