If one is fashionable for the greater part of one’s career, one will produce second-class work. Perhaps by chance one will arrive at being a success but this means that one is a follower and not an innovator. An artist should lead, blaze trails.
“If one had to categorize the future in one word, it would be that word “home.” Just as the 20th century has been the age of mobility, largely through the motor car, so the next era will be one in which instead of having to seek out one’s adventures through travel, one creates them, in whatever form one chooses, in one’s home. The average individual… will have all the resources of a modern TV studio at his fingertips, coupled with data processing devices of incredible sophistication and power.”
J. G. Ballard | Penthouse, April 1979