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.
ALVIN TOFFLERHumanity 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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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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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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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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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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 overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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