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

Alvin Toffler

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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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Experts People Vision
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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Breathing Change Perspective
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
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Civilization Political Technology
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
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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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
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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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
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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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
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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