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.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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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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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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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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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 not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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