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.
ALVIN TOFFLERTo 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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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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 the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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