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.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange 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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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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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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 first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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