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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.

Alvin Toffler

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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 Communication Fire
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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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Change Corporations Country
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
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
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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Destiny Future Responsibility
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
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
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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Criticism Wife Years
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
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take

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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