The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur 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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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