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

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

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

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

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.