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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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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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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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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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