Reception
Gengle wrote in The Netweaver's Sourcebook, that the book: "..did more to liberate media-created hippies than just about any other work of its time." The book has also been referenced in later sociological evaluations of potential paths for society, including Marien's Societal Directions and Alternatives, and Higgin's Symptoms of Tomorrow. The book's publisher, Capricorn Press or "Capra Press", would come to be better known, having published the work.
Though the book was speculative in nature, Stevens was subsequently consulted on issues relating to the future of the planet's economic, ecological and energy systems. The book was later referenced by Hinshaw in a piece describing two potential futures, who cited Steven's term "Electronic Social Transformation".
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)