Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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