Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

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.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.