The primary question of this book is... how do you keep entertained when you've grown bored with everything?

It's a similar question that Ballard asks in his similar Super-Cannes, and I think it's a fitting query for a world in which machines and technology grant the world (at least, western citizens) an increasingly large amount of leisure time.

I enjoy Ballard because he has a skillful way of both telling an entertaining story and broaching deeper philosophical quandries. Too many authors can only do one or the other.