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.
ALVIN TOFFLERMy 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 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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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