Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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