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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

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
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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Science Talking Together
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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
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
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Cycles Faster Pace
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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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Anger Real Society
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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

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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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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