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...survive the next few decades, we must be willing to drastically reevaluate and transform our social mores, basic values and political system," Toffler said at the conference on future planning sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
...Toffler said the first great revolution occurred when agricultural societies replaced hunting and gathering societies. The transformation of agricultural societies to industrial societies was the second great revolution...
...Toffler used many examples, including President Carter's meteoric rise from Georgia farmer to president of one of the world's two superpowers, to illustrate this change in speed...
...speed with which hand calculators and C.B. radios have become popular consumer goods is another example of this change in tempo, Toffler said, adding this acceleration has rendered social institutions ineffective...
...Things are happening so quickly that we can't remember yesterday's crisis in time to learn from it. Political leaders are forced to make increasingly complex decisions in diminishing amounts of time. This increases instability and insecurity and further complicates the problem," Toffler said...