Never in history has distance meant less.

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

Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

I work virtually every waking hour.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.