Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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