Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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 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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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