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

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

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.

Never in history has distance meant less.

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

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

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