Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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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.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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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.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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 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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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