In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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 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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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