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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

Alvin Toffler

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
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
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Betray Education Spring Youth
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
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
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
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave

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