Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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 overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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