There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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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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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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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