By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
ALVIN TOFFLERPopular 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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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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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