One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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