One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

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.

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.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

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.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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

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.