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...examined not just tomorrow but today, not just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument that what was really changing society was the radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today," says Alvin Toffler, "are scared silly...
...administrative side, the center is investing $50 million over the next several years on Project ADAPT, an initiative designed to revolutionize the way the University deals with administrative data...
True to Harvard's decentralized nature, the University did not wait for Rudenstine to speak out on the potential of technology. Instead of the centralized effort now underway to revolutionize Harvard's administrative uses of information technology (Project ADAPT), advances in academic information technology at Harvard have come about from the bottom up within the schools...
These funds are designed to create University-wide professorships and cross-disciplinary initiatives, as well as to aid administrative efforts like Project ADAPT, which was created to revolutionize the way the University collects financial data. Some of the money will also serve as presidential discretionary funds to help lagging projects...
Some of Rudenstine's attempts at coordination--the litany of new meetings required between schools, University-wide financial reforms and the planning of Project ADAPT--have created a bureaucracy that stifles change, critics charge...