If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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