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

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

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