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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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