By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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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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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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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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