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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

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
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
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
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
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
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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Lying Responsibility Teaching
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
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
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

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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