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.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Popular 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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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