The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.

Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...