Re: when there are lots of time-phones kicking around.

How true! Life is going to get very interesting!

Re: wild-eyed alarmists

I'd have to go back and re-read - but my recollection is that the alarmists were viewed as crack-pots by the power plant management. That's a rather important difference - the scientists looked at the data and said 'hmm, this is new, we should consider this', while the management said, 'we already know all the answers, why should we bother?'

It was more of the scientist vs. management world-view that he skewered so enthusiastically in The Genesis Machine.