"How will Pictonians live 100 years from today?
Living in a building a mile high? Plugging into a computer to do you work at home? Travelling at 2000 miles per hour? You won't have to worry about the weather. Transparant domes will protect us from it. Prefab homes made from plastic will be used. The unit homes will be joined by others, something like Habitat at Expo 67. Building up to five miles high could hold up to 500,000 people. Automatic cooking and cleaning, no furniture as we know it today. Most equipment such as TV etc., will be built into the walls. Carpeted levels in the homes allow sitting room on these steps.
Scientists, writers and tehologists say that rapid surface transprot will be tubes. The vehivles will be moved by air pressure, rockets, etc. You won't have a car unless you rent one. It will move automatically once you program your destination into the computer. Nuclear energy will probably be used to generate electricity. Moving sidewalks, magnetic cushions and conveyor belts will move people and goods.
Protein from soybean and fish or oil will be processed to look and taste like the foods we like. Fish farms will be common. Your clothes will be shrink, spot and dust free. No seams will be needed. Clothes will be fused together.
Test-tube babies will be possible. The sex act won't be needed. Growing old will be delayed. Organ transplants will become totally successful or we'll have man-made organs to replace faulty body parts. "Work" as we know it won't be the same. Work and leisure will have become one. LIP projects are an example of projects defined as useful. Whether we'll have an "utopia" is still questioned."
From the January 9, 1974 edition of the Pictou Advocate
1974 Microfilm
File number: | PA Jan 9 1974 p1 |
Contributor: | Susan Parker | View all submissions |
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