No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . .
Source: My Own View, in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Holdstock, 1978.
-- Isaac Asimov, (Jan 2 1920-1992), US science writer, science-fiction writer; He was a prolific non-fiction and SF author who created the robotic laws and the Foundation series.