Occupation: Writer Birth: October 4, 1928 Death: June 27, 2016
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition..
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substance….
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb.
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.….
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46..
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy..
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order..
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future..
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor..
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 gener….
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock..
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness..
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances..
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 his….
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must sea….
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time..
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment..
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock..
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial ag….
Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-return….
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them..