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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.

Alvin Toffler

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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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
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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Cycles Faster Pace
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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.
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Criticism Wife Years
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
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
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 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
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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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
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
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
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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Adaptable Individual Shock
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision

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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