a

appeal to. ‘erstwhile
Since, Sy. ‘the time: anyone ¢ can
prove: the: predictions wrong,
it’ 's too, 0, late to: ‘matter

 Faturists have gone out on

a limb with variable. Fesults.

Dr. James Lockhart, -

. biologist at the. California
Institute of Technology, for

instance, suffered a siroke of
bad luck when he predicted,

in 1959, what would happen

by the end of the. mext
decade. ‘Ten years from
now,;”? the goed doctor
pronounced, You will be
able to. sit on a lawn that

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future,a Subject: of particular :

erongeen TA send Hoa - “ror, BE
‘page 2- December 4, 1977: wean sili

can. survive ‘the ‘ess of

- assessment, cities would also:

become more” humane, free

mobile.

deluged by: demand for

Serviced residential land. In
the ‘short-. run,
impossible: to:provide enough
serviced © land. ‘But, in the .

Jong run,. rural ‘Canada ‘will

cease to be the poor relation -

of urban Canada.

| “Entrepreneurs will fi find the
rapid changes .e

xhilarating; —
hidebound traditionalists will

needs no mowing and reach . i

up.to pick a mormal-sized
peach from ‘the low branches
of a dwarf tree.’? So much for
futuristic infalltbitity.

The following thoughts are .

presented without the slight-
.est suggestion

about j it.
As we've -noted “here 7
‘before, it.. wil scon be

possible, through electronic _
hookups, for any worker not _

involved in manufacturing. to

work® at: homie. rather: than |

to. an. office. 9
Intercity conferences will be 1
held without the participants

- ever leaving their own.
ms.

to:

This ‘technology is closer

than you may think. The
Canadian . Federation of

Independent Business,.tired ©

of inefficiencies in the Post
Office, has been invéstigat-
ing a device which will
transmit photocopies. of
printed documents over

telephone lines — almost a

instantly.

oe

The impticattons of - this
sort ...of... communications
break-through are stagger-
ing. Besides signalling the

beginning of the end for the
virtually all

Post Office,
business travel will become

obsolete. Society will change
dramatically.

\

Industrial empires — think
of the effect on the auto
industry or hotels or airlines
~~ will tumble. New fortunes
will be earned overnight;
imagine’ the profits to be

earned from a wrist tele-

phone, for instance.

Cities would be  bank-
‘rupted as workers move far
away from thelr “‘offices’’.
On the other hand, if they

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~The gural : areas will be”

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ihese. who accurately Preaice
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But, above all, the changes

_will drive -home. one’ point.
“which: is.so: often overlooked -
‘in our: society: ‘politicians. do
‘not create. ..change;. rather,
' they are controlled ‘by chan-
_ ges beyond their grasp. The
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be affected by the: ‘actions of

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