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.
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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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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 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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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. 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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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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