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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.

Alvin Toffler

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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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
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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Civilization Political Technology
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
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
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
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes

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