Time to Teleport - Delusion World by Gordon R. Dickson 1981
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 look ahead, they dared to try and struggle and learn and move forward.
And 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...
