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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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.
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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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