Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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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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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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 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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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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