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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

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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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
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
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Gay Law Pornography Rights
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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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Breathing Change Perspective
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
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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Difficult Process Producers
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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
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
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

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