5 Excerpts

"All I know is it's really the end of the beginning. The Stone Age, Bronze Age,

Iron Age; from now on we'll lump all those together under one big name for when

we walked on Earth and heard the birds at morning and cried with envy. Maybe

we'll call it the Earth Age, or maybe the Age of Gravity."

-From Ray Bradbury's The End Of The Beginning, Published in 1956.
Country- U.S.A

"With the marked increase in temperature changes, very important alterations will take place in nature. Trees will grow faster and will become more fragile... Much more serious: many more coastlines could become uninhabitable. Seven of the worlds biggest cities are ports, and a third of the world's population lives on a coastline... Eco-exiles will become ten times more numerous by 2050."
-From Jacques Attali's
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century.
Published in 2006.
Country-France

"Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species."

-From Bill Joy's Why the Future Doesn't Need Us.
Published 2004.
Country-U.S.A

"We have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012."

-Quote from Susan Milbrath, The Florida Museum Of Natural History 1990