The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets..

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible..

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

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..

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

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it..

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive ….

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible co….

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

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation,….

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are ….

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly speciali….

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating t….

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

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity ga….

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries….

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world..

Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to….

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself q….