The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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