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.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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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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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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