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.
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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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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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.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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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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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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