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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Alvin Toffler

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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Breathing Change Perspective
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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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Coaching Dimensions Powerful
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Cycles Faster Pace
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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Adaptable Individual Shock
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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Appreciate Civilization Country Immposible
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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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
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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Difficult Process Producers
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

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