The January 2 , 1968 Lima News ( Lima , OH ) start the third in a series of articles based on inquiry by the Commission on the Year 2000 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The third in the serial dealt with life , work and family issues human race would face up in the class 2000 . As I ’ve discussed before , major social issue are for the most part ignored in twentieth hundred American futurism , so it ’s interesting when we stumble upon serious prediction about major societal change by the yr 2000 .
A short excerpt appears below , but you may say the intact first page of the articlehere .
By the class 2000 Americans may locomote by ballistic missile , bury a tab for a meal and wear leotards and helmet like people in scientific discipline fiction comic strips . Or they may not . There ’s no way of telling , and perhaps it does n’t make much difference .
What count is the tone of life : What will it be like to live in the class 2000 ? No one can draw the complete picture , but members of the Commission on the Year 2000 took glimpses from limited point of view .
Will people be able to get wind and commend what they need to know in the complex cosmos of 2000 ? Not without help , betoken psychologist George A. Miller of Harvard University .
How will raw biological techniques affect relation between the sex ? Perhaps by eliminating man and wife and the family , suggest anthropologist Margaret Mead of New York ’s Museum of Natural History .
What will take in a keep be like for Americans ? well-heeled , Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener of the Hudson Institute calculate . Maybe too loose .
Will there be any secrecy leave ? Only if society takes steps to uphold it , warned jurisprudence prof Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago .
antecedently on Paleo - Future:21st Century Eugenics ( 1967)Future Shock – Babytorium ( 1972)Instant Baby Machine ( 1930)Civilized Adultery ( 1970 )
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