Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Why the future doesn't need us

Why the future doesn't need us, by Bill Joy

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The Mystery Method - The Venusian Arts Handbook

The Mystery Method - The Venusian Arts Handbook, by Mystery aka Erik von Markovik

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Future Shock

C. P. Snow: "Remarkable ... No one ought to have the nerve to pontificate on our present worries without reading it."

R. Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent ... brilliant ... I hope vast numbers will read Toffler's book."

Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true ... Should be read by anyone with the responsibility of leading or participating in movements for change in America today."

Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is 'where it's at.'"

Robert Rimmer, author of The Harrad Experiment: "A magnificent job ... Must reading."

John Diebold: "For those who want to understand the social and psychological implications of the technological revolution, this is an incomparable book."

WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Explosive ... Brilliantly formulated."

LONDON DAILY EXPRESS: "Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society."

LE FIGARO: "The best study of our times that I know ... Of all the books that I have read in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most."

THE TIMES OF INDIA: "To the elite ... who often get committed to age-old institutions or material goals alone, let Toffler's FUTURE SHOCK be a lesson and a warning."

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: "An American book that will ... reshape our thinking even more radically than Galbraith's did in the 1950s ... The book is more than a book, and it will do more than send reviewers raving ... It is a spectacular outcrop of a formidable, organized intellectual effort ... For the first time in history scientists are marrying the insights of artists, poets, dramatists, and novelists to statistical analysis and operational research. The two cultures have met and are being merged. Alvin Toffler is one of the first exhilarating, liberating results."

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "Packed with ideas, explanations, constructive suggestions ... Revealing, exciting, encouraging, brilliant."

NEWSWEEK: "In the risky business of social and cultural criticism, there appears an occasional book that manages—through some happy combination of accident and insight—to shape our perceptions of its times. One thinks of America in the 1950s, for example, largely in terms of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, while Michael Harrington's The Other America helped focus the concerns of the early 1960s. And now Alvin Toffler's immensely readable yet disquieting study may serve the same purpose for our own increasingly volatile world: even before reading the book, one is ready to acknowledge the point of the title—that we suffer from 'future shock.'"

http://quebeck.dyndns.org/temp/Alvin%20Toffler%20-%20Future%20Shock.pdf

Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler

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