Chapter One: Revolt
"I don't care what you do as long as it's something we can be proud of. But why this craze for gadgets? We've got all the machines we need. The robot was perfected five hundred years ago: spaceships haven't changed for at least that time; I believe our present communications system is nearly eight hundred years old. So why change what's already perfect?"
(from Clarke's "The Lion of Comarre")
(from Clarke's "The Lion of Comarre")