Time travel may be achieved one day or it may not. But if it is it should not require any fundamental change in world-view at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time which nevertheless seems endless.
They're trying to tell us that we're not right so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself and living in the present.
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present only about the past.
The present is a point just passed.
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment caused by nature or the universe or technology what readers want to see is how people cope and so the character are present to cope or fail to cope.
My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.