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.
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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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