"Heinlein, Robert A - The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

So let's have a few free-swinging predictions about the future.

Some will be wrong Ч but cautious predictions are sure to be wrong.

1. Interplanetary travel is waiting at your front door Ч C.O.D. It's yours
when you pay for it. (a)

2. Contraception and control of disease is revising relations between sexes
to an extent that will change our entire social and economic structure. (b)

5. The most important military fact of this century is that there is no way
to repel an attack from outer space. (c)

4. It is utterly impossible that the United States will start a "preventive
war." We will fight when attacked, either directly or in a territory we
have guaranteed to defend. (d)

5. In fifteen years the housing shortage will be solved by a "breakthrough"
into new technology which will make every house now standing as obsolete as
privies. (e)

6. We'll all be getting a little hungry by and by.

7. The cult of the phony in art will disappear. So-called "modern art" will
be discussed only by psychiatrists.

8. Freud will be classed as a pre-scientific, intuitive pioneer and
psychoanalysis will be replaced by a growing, changing "operational
psychology" based on measurement and prediction.

9. Cancer, the common cold, and tooth decay will all be conquered; the
revolutionary new problem in medical research will be to accomplish
"regeneration," i.e., to enable a man to grow a new leg, rather than fit
him with an artificial limb. (f )

10. By the end of this century mankind will have explored this solar
system, and the first ship intended to reach the nearest star will be
abuilding. ( g )

11. Your personal telephone will be small enough to carry in your handbag.
Your house telephone will record messages, answer simple queries, and
transmit vision.

12. Intelligent life will be found on Mars. ( h )

13. A thousand miles an hour at a cent a mile will be commonplace; short
hauls will be made in evacuated subways at extreme speeds. (i)

14. A major objective of applied physics will be to control gravity. ( j )