Others, One Suspects, Are Afraid That The

Can The Synthesis Of Man And Machine Ever Be Stable, Or Will The Purely Organic Component Become Such A Hindrance That It Has To Be Discarded?

Belief In God Is Apparently A Psychological Artifact Of Mammalian Reproduction.

Judge Me By My Deeds, Though They Are Few, Rather Than My Words, Though They Are Many.

Science Fiction Does Not Attempt To Predict. It Extrapolates. It Just Says, "what If?" Not What Will Be? Because You Can Never Predict What Will Happen, Particularly In Politics And Economics. You Can To Some Extent Predict In The Technological Sphere - Flying, Space Travel, But Even There We Missed Badly On Some Things, Like Computers. No One Imagined The Incredible Impact Of Computers, Even Though Robot Brains Of Various Kinds But The Idea That One Day Every House Would Have A Computer In Every Room And That One Day We'd Have Computers Built Into Our Clothing, Nobody Ever Thought Of That.

But Please Remember: This Is Only A Work Of Fiction. The Truth, As Always, Will Be Far Stranger.