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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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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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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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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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