“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
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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.
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
