Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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 not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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