Part I: The Art of Prophecy
Previous futurist authors he cites:
- Edward Bellamy
- J.D. Bernal
- McGeorge Bundy
- Arthur C. Clarke
- George Darwin
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Robert Heilbroner
- Aldous Huxley
- Rudyard Kipling
- Thomas More
- George Orwell
- George Thompson
- Konstantin Tsiolkovski
- Jules Verne
- H.G. Wells
- Eugene Zamiatin
Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future included a long list of predictions, many of which O'Neill endorsed. Two of his maxims O'Neill quotes seems to sum up O'Neill's attitude, as well:
- "anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties, if it is desired greatly enough"
- "We can never run out of energy or matter, but we can all too easily run out of brains."
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