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

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

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.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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