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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.

Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
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
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
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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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
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
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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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Gay Law Pornography Rights

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.

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