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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Alvin Toffler

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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
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
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
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
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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Breathing Change Perspective
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Lying Responsibility Teaching
The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Difficult Process Producers
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

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