Gate is Closing

Jarret supporters have been known, now and then, to form mobs and burn people at the stake for being witches. Jarret's people have been known to shoot or to burn anyone who seems different from them... Jarret condemns the burnings, but he does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.

Octavia E. Butler · Parable of the Talents (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998FICTION

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

Nikola Tesla · "A Machine to End War, 1935

If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.

Donella H. Meadows · The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Universe Books, 1972