Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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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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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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