Isaac Asimov's 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later -- in 2014 | Open Culture

Isaac Asimov's 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later -- in 2014 | Open Culture

“[T]he world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000.” And later he warns that if the population growth continues unchecked, “All earth will be a single choked Manhattan by A.D. 2450 and society will collapse long before that!” As a result, “There will, therefore, be a worldwide propaganda drive in favor of birth control by rational and humane methods and, by 2014, it will undoubtedly have taken serious effect.” [See our Walt Disney Family Planning cartoon from earlier this week.

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“[M]ankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014.”

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Скуката е налице, обаче ексцентричностите и странностите започнаха да бъдат налагани като норма (нормалност) от скучаещото мнозинство, което няма къде да си вложи енергията и да си удовлетвори функционалните потребности.