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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.

Alvin Toffler

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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Breathing Change Perspective
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
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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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Adaptable Individual Shock
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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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Lying Responsibility Teaching
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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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Experts People Vision
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates

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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