One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERMany 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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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