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.
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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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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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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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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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