The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

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

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.

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

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.