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.
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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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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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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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