If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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