One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

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.

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

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.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.