Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou 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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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