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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.

Alvin Toffler

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
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
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
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
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
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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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
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
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Change Communication Fire
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering

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