Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

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.

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

Never in history has distance meant less.

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

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.