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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.

Alvin Toffler

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
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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Lying Responsibility Teaching
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Difficult Process Producers
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
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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Destiny Future Responsibility
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Gay Law Pornography Rights
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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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
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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Change Communication Fire
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom

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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