The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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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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 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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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