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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Alvin Toffler

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
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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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
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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Civilization Political Technology
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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Experts People Vision
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
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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Data Emotional Running
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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Science Talking Together
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
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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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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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Anger Real Society
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism

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