Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

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.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous