Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 42: what you’re looking at

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Take off your rosy spectacles— There’s trouble in the future! HAT are we going to do when coal runs out? Use atomic power? Well, maybe. But this and many similar questions which are not being seriously considered by scien- tists today are going to cause a lot of headaches for man- kind in the future. Here we are speaking about the dim, distant future, of course—the province of sci- ence fiction!—and that is probably why few present-day scientists give the matter any real thought. Though science is quite definitely forward- looking, it tends to take account only of the relatively near future, a few generations ahead at most. But more imaginative minded people cannot help considering the problems that will face humanity, say, several million years in the future. Here are some of the problems. 41 —says JOHN TAYNE Medical science, carried to the extreme end of its quest, will dispense with illness and - derangements Of all kinds; not just bodily diseases, but Mental ones as well. So, while the perfect health of the future might not cause unpleasant psychological disturbances, it is pretty certain to produce unmanageable overcrowding. The sociologists and the better types of politician are trying to get rid of wars. We may presume that they will succeed. In that case, there will not be the periodic deci- mations of humanity to keep the world’s population within economic limits. These two factors—medicine and soci- ology—working together will destroy the natural balance of life apart from the fairly negligible effects of accident. And even accidents may be entirely eliminated! This way, comiclbooks.conrn