Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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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 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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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