Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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