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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

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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Science Talking Together
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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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Cutting Kings Knights
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
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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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Change Communication Fire
Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Data Emotional Running
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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
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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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
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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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage

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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