There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERMan has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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 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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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