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copyright 1976
by Julian Bond

Social problems of the 70s and 80s

Despite that, I've been asked speak about the future.

To discuss the future at all is risky; none of us knows for sure what the next few minutes may bring.

Futurists even have their own language - they discuss the post-industrial, post-scarcity, superindustrial, globally homeopathic, post-affluent, prefigurative society that may, they say, be soon upon us. Their models are developed through trend [illegible] extrapolation, cross impact analysis, mutual causal paradigms, and transformational matrixes, predicted on resometrics, technotronics, synergetics or anticipatory democracy within either macro or micro systems.

^{We can surely expect much change by the year 2000.}

25 years from now our world's population may be 6 billion people. We may have by then developed the ability to create ourselves through genetic engineering, to create a race of men and women less hostile ^{] 2} to each other, less selfish of their own resources. We may be able to alter our weather, as well as our consciousness.