The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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