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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

Alvin Toffler

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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
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
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
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
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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Adaptable Individual Shock
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
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
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
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision

A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

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