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

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.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

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

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.