You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

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.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

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.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

The great growling engine of change - technology.