The People In Hollywood Are Fabulously Stupid.

Even If You Don't Believe In God, You Still Have To Believe In Something That Gives Meaning To Your Life, And Shapes Your Sense Of The World. Such A Belief Is Religious.

In The Information Society, Nobody Thinks. We Expect To Banish Paper, But We Actually Banish Thought.

It Is Especially Difficult For Modern People To Conceive That Our Modern, Scientific Age Might Not Be An Improvement Over The Prescientific Period.

A Hundred Years From Now, People Will Look Back On Us And Laugh. They'll Say, 'you Know What People Used To Believe? They Believed In Photons And Electrons. Can You Imagine Anything So Silly?' They'll Have A Good Laugh, Because By Then There Will Be Newer Better Fantasies... And Meanwhile, You Feel The Way The Boat Moves? That's The Sea. That's Real. You Smell The Salt In The Air? You Feel The Sunlight On Your Skin? That's All Real. Life Is Wonderful. It's A Gift To Be Alive, To See The Sun And Breathe The Air. And There Isn't Really Anything Else.

They Believed That Prediction Was Just A Function Of Keeping Track Of Things. If You Knew Enough, You Could Predict Anything. That's Been Cherished Scientific Belief Since Newton.' And?' Chaos Theory Throws It Right Out The Window.