If it makes you move, or moves you, or grooves you, it’ll be here; the blues rolls on, rock steady knocks, and they all are here now, and I think they all will be here from now on.
“Three immense forces, Heilbroner contends, transformed the Distant Past into Yesterday — science, capitalism and the revolutionary belief that people might become masters of their own fates. For the first time, mankind saw the future as a beckoning prospect. The growth of technology and science, in particular, rapidly transformed the world for the better — a process that everyone assumed would stretch forever into the future.”
J. G. Ballard | “Anything Could Happen”