What 2018 Looked Like Fifty Years Ago

[GordMay]

In 1968, the Foreign Policy Association, formed in 1918 to promote the League of Nations, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by publishing a book of predictions about what the world would look like, technology-wise, fifty years on.
Two things are true about “Toward the Year 2018.” First, most (but not all) of the machines that people expected would be invented have, in fact, been invented. Second, most of those machines have had consequences wildly different from those anticipated in 1968.

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“Toward the Year 2018" by the Foreign Policy Association (Cowles Educational Corporation, 1968.)
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