Saturday, March 1, 2014

Future Shock from a 1972 perspective

Rather fascinating to watch this early seventies creation.  Some were worried back then about the pace of change and its effect upon humanity.

It seems quite prescient in some ways.  For example, there appears to be a same sex marriage ceremony in there, but it isn't quite called that.  My recollection is that a same sex marriage would have seemed bizarre to most people back then.

Another thought is that it is about the time of the Limits to Growth mindset were taking hold in this country.  You can trace it all to something that may have happened about the year 1968, which represented the high water mark of income in terms of gold per capita in the United States.





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