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.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

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

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

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

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.