Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
ALVIN TOFFLERHuman 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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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My 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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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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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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