We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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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 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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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