What I have been trying to do in this book is not so much to propose a vision of what, precisely, the next age will be like, but to throw open perspectives, enlarge our sense of possibilities; to begin to ask what it would mean to start thinking on a breadth and with a grandeur appropriate to the times.

Chapter Twelve, "1971–The Beginning…", p. 383 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)