The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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