To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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