The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. - Arthur C. Clarke

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play

Of course, we in the so-called developed countries thought we were civilized. At least war wasn't respectable any more, and the United Nations was always doing its best to stop the wars that did break out.' 'Not very successfully: I'd give it about three out of ten...'

...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Yet it was the impression that the unknown master has set out to create, Phoenix-like, from the dying embers of a great legend. He had captured, and held for all future ages to see, that beauty whose service is the purpose of life, and it sole justification.