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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Alvin Toffler

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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Change Communication Fire
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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
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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Change Corporations Country
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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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Destiny Future Responsibility
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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Difficult Process Producers
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
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
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
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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Data Emotional Running
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading

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