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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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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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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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