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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Alvin Toffler

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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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Criticism Wife Years
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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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Cutting Kings Knights
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

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