People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
From Alvin Toffler
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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.
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