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Paperback A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations Of An Optimist illustrated Book

ISBN: B0932CX8GM

ISBN13: 9798741843444

A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations Of An Optimist illustrated

A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations Of An Optimist by T. Baron Russell In this serious attempt to forecast the changes ahead in the 20th century from the year 1906, the author deals with the accelerating rate of scientific progress, housing, travel, population, business, pleasure, newspapers, utilization of the sea, science, education, religion, economics, and law. He describes his intentions in the following manner in his Preface: "The following was at first intended to be no more than an attempt to foresee the probable trend of mechanical invention and scientific discovery during the present century. But as the work took shape it was seen to involve a certain amount of what may be called moral conjecture, since the material progress of the new age could not very well be imagined without taking into account its mental characteristics. In these expectations of an optimist, a great ethical improvement of the civilised human race has been anticipated, and a rate of progress foreseen which perhaps no previous writers have looked for.

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