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

Alvin Toffler

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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Civilization Political Technology
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
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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
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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Gay Law Pornography Rights
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
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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
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
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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
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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond

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

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