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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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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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