One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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 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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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