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.
ALVIN TOFFLERParenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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 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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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