The Shockwave Rider (John Brunner) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 3)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

People like me who are concerned to portray in fictional terms aspects of that foreign country, the future, whither we are all willy-nilly being deported, do not make our guesses in a vacuum. We are frequently—and in this case I am specifically—indebted to those who are analyzing the limitless possibilities of tomorrow with some more practical aim in view … as for instance the slim yet admirable hope that our children may inherit a world more influenced by imagination and foresight than our own.

The “scenario” (to employ a fashionable cliché) of The Shockwave Rider derives in large part from Alvin Toffler’s stimulating study Future Shock, and in consequence I’m much obliged to him.

J.K.H.B.