If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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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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