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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
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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
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
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 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
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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
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
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
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
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

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