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 TOFFLERWe 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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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 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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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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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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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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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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