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.
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 first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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