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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.

Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
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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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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 Corporations Country
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
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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Experts People Vision
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
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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Anger Real Society
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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Cycles Faster Pace
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Adaptable Individual Shock
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
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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Difficult Process Producers
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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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction

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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