Future Shock Quotes

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

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

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

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.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

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.

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.

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

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

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.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

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

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.

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.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. 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. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.