The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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