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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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