A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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