Time to Teleport, Delusion World — Gordon R. Dickson

The World was quiet and that was bad, for it was the quiet not of peace but of stagnation. Strife was ended but so was progress, growth, human striving - except in the hidden laboratories and redoubts of the underground members of Humanity. They dared to try and struggle and learn ad move forward. and struggle and learned and move forward. Unless Eli Johnstone, Spokesman for the Autonomous Group that runs the world, can come to grips with their unflinching dedication to the future, they could just be the spark to blow a planet apart.