In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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 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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