Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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