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.
ALVIN TOFFLERMany 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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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