The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.