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What Does the
Future Hold?
It
is going to be great! When it happens that is.
Industrial Research Magazine polled the research directors at
the most popular industrial firms in both the United States and
Japan and they tell us things will be quite different in the
near future. With the huge advances in medical research,
human life expectancy will reach between 150 and 200 years.
Amazing, is it not? The folks who tell us the future have
some fairly rosy outlooks. Scientists at TRW tell us that
we will have a habitable lunar base and be working daily from the
surface of the moon. Dr. Robert George says that video
teleconferencing will be as common as a telephone call is today.
No more airplanes, we will all travel by rockets with the same
fine amenities that the airliners offer now.
According to famed Japanese scientist Dr. Shlomo Maital, we will
have sonic dishwashers, clothes washers and showers, and not
have to used water supplies any longer. Cars will be solar
powered of course. Harold Stassen adviser to the President
declared that hunger will be completely unknown and we will have
the technology to insure that food never rots and crops never
spoil. Now that would be nice, would it not? Robots
of course will handle the vast majority of the industrial and
service related duties. Furnaces, smoke-stacks and smog
will be a thing of the past. Meredith Thring, a professor
at Queen Mary College predicts that within twenty years robots
will be so cheap that the majority of Americans will have these
mechanical little helpers to do all the drudgery chores around
the house. They will do the house-cleaning, the laundry,
mow the grass, even make the beds. That would be great!
Now, of course there will be a price to pay for all this luxury
and convenience. For one thing, stuff will cost more.
Milk is predicted to be $25 a gallon, bread $11 a loaf....and
gasoline...well, actually there is no consensus there as half
the experts predict that gas will cost $50 a gallon and the
other half predict that we will not be using gas at all! One
fellow at the Rand Corporation also tells us that the population
will be so large that we will all have about 4 square yards of
personal space each....and we will have to build vertically
everywhere in order have places to live. Well, I guess the
good folks in New York City can tell us about that. But,
those are the predictions from the world’s leading experts on
what is going to happen next.
So, I have a question for you. How are you enjoying them?
You do have everything I just told you about, do you not? Because
in-fact all this was predicted by the world leading experts...to
come true by the year.....2000! So, what brand of robot do
you have?
According to William Sherden in his landmark book, the fortune
sellers, virtually all of the professional predictions of those
who make their living telling us what is going to happen are
wrong 95% of the time. And I guess he’d know...After all,
he did a study on it! But where does that leave us?
I think it is pretty clear, is it not?!
If
you follow predictions you will probably be wrong 95% of the
time. I do not know about you, but in this economic
climate, I do not want to be wrong 5% of the time, much less 95%
of the time. Follow your own path. Make your own
judgments based on what you see, and most importantly what
common sense and experience tells you is going to happen.
Chances are, you will be right far more often than wrong. |
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