By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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 first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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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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