Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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