Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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