Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf 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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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