We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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 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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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 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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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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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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