Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
The great growling engine of change – technology.
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.
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.