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.
ALVIN TOFFLERHumanity 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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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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 first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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