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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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 the most democratic source of power.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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