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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Alvin Toffler

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Betray Education Spring Youth
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
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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Civilization Political Technology
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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Anger Real Society
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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Change Corporations Country
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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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Change Communication Fire
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
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Science Talking Together
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

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