Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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