Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's... →
J. G. Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or... →
The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near... →
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very... →
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a... →
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation... →
You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we... →
James Balog
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Pierre de Coubertin