It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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