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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Alvin Toffler

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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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Science Talking Together
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
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
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
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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
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
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Cutting Kings Knights
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

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

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