 As with the previous album, "Electric Tepee", the group remained a three-piece of guitarist Dave Brock, bassist Alan Davey and drummer Richard Chadwick.The album was recorded in 1993 at Brock's own Barking Dog Studios, produced with Paul Cobbold.The title track "It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous" is a quote from the mathematician/philosopher Alfred Whitehead's "Science and the Modern World", which had originally been used on the sleeve notes to the "Space Ritual" album ("It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties").