One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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