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

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

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

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

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.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.