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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.

Alvin Toffler

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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Anger Real Society
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
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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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
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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Experts People Vision
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
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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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits

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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