Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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