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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

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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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
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
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
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
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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Destiny Future Responsibility
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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
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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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Criticism Wife Years
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
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
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

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