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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.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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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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  Process, Difficult, Producers

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• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

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  Education, Learning, Chinese

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• Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

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  Ideas, Suggestions, Assassins

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• Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

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  Space, Information, Substitutes

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• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

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  Future, Order, Change Management

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• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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  Technology, Progress, Hazards

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

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  Disorientation, Shock, Change Management

  Horizon, Summer 1965

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• It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

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  Sides, Take A Chance, Daring

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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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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  Wisdom, Data, Thought Provoking

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• You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

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  Economy

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• Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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  Ocean, Sea, Sky

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• The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

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  Wind, Organization, Mass Destruction

  "Future Speak". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. March 1, 1999.

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• One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

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  Civilization, Skills, Together Again

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• In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

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  Writing, Learning, Illiterate Person

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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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  Country, Civilization, Appreciate

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• We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

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  People, Vision, Experts

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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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  Powerful, Coaching, Dimensions

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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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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  Civilization, Creative, Humanity

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• We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

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  Dream, Vision, Needs

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
  loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
  the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
  techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

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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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  Change, Breathing, Perspective

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

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  Change, Country, Corporations

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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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  Technology, Civilization, Political

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