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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.

Alvin Toffler

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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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Adaptable Individual Shock
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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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 first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
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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Breathing Change Perspective
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
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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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology

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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.

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