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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

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
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 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
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
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
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
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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Breathing Change Perspective
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
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible

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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