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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

Alvin Toffler

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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Change Communication Fire
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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Gay Law Pornography Rights
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Adaptable Individual Shock
The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Lying Responsibility Teaching
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
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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Cutting Kings Knights
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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Betray Education Spring Youth
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
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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Cycles Faster Pace
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
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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Difficult Process Producers

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