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

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.

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 customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

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

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

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.