Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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