Quotes from book
Flashforward
Flashforward is a science fiction novel by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer first published in 1999. The novel is set in 2009. At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider accelerator is performing a run to search for the Higgs boson. The experiment has a unique side effect; the entire human race loses their consciousness for about two minutes. During that time, nearly everyone sees themselves roughly twenty-one years and six months in the future. Each individual experiences the future through the senses of his or her future self. This "flashforward" results in countless deaths and accidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control at the time of the experiment. The novel inspired the 2009 television series FlashForward.
“Free will is an illusion. It is synonymous with incomplete perception.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 12 epigram (p. 123; quoting Walter Kubilius)
“He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 1 epigram (p. 9; quoting Beilby Porteus)
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 13 (p. 137)
“There may be oodles of possible humans, but it is a finite number.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 16 (p. 167)
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 9 (pp. 95-96)
