The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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