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Strangely, [Gilman's] predictions are interesting not because they were wildly wrong, nor because they have come true, but because nearly a hundred years later, some fundamental questions and concerns have not changed. Answers are all very well, but asking the right questions at the right time is one of the founding principles that sets an interesting futurist apart from a mediocre one.
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The New York Times, recalled Heidi, blasted us and said that the idea of people working at home was ridiculous'. Much to the Tofflers' delight, in 1994 the paper published an article identifying this new trend, 'as if they had always known that this was the case!'" - p. 214
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[Lenin] was impatient to know why the Western world did not rouse itself and join in the world revolution. Wells replied that this was because the middle class was not interested: it was far too comfortably off.
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