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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIn 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 is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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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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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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