the introduction of Ad-hocracy increases the adaptability of organizations; but it strains the adaptability of men. http://scut.ly/na

transience and novelty are an explosive mix. http://scut.ly/na

what passes for education today, even in our "best" schools and colleges, is a hopeless anachronism. http://scut.ly/na

our schools face backward toward a dying system, rather than forward to the emerging new society. http://scut.ly/na

the very organization of knowledge into permanent disciplines was grounded on industrial assumptions. http://scut.ly/na

trapped in an educational system intent on turning them into living anachronisms, today's students have every right to rebel. http://scut.ly/na

education must shift into the future tense. http://scut.ly/na

many social ills are less the consequence of oppressive control than of oppressive lack of control. http://scut.ly/na

the essence of creativity is a willingness to play the fool, to toy with the absurd... http://scut.ly/na

the breakdown of control in society today is directly linked to our inadequate images of probable futures. http://scut.ly/na

we need sanctuaries for social imagination. http://scut.ly/na

technocrat and anti-technocrat often turn out to be elitist brothers under the skin. http://scut.ly/na

as interdependency grows, smaller and smaller groups within society achieve greater and greater power for critical disruption. http://scut.ly/na

what was naive under industrialism may be realistic under super-industrialism; what was practical may be absurd. http://scut.ly/na

because something is happening now, or has been happening for three hundred years, is no guarantee that it will continue. http://scut.ly/na

most people are culturally more skilled as analysts than synthesists. http://scut.ly/na

a "powershift" does not merely transfer power, it transforms it. http://scut.ly/na

power is shifting at so astonishing a rate that world leaders are being swept along by events, rather than imposing order on them. http://scut.ly/na

as knowledge is redistributed, so, too, is the power based on it. http://scut.ly/na