The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

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

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.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

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

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.