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

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION sociology, and since the econ- omics of the future will be of a different kind from the economics of today, then a political system of the future will be of a different kind from those existing today. Such a kind is probably some- thing that we just cannot conceive at present. But one thing is perfectly clear: no matter how clever or how devoted to the well- being of humanity are future politicians, they cannot alter the facts of nature. If there is no more copper or silver or iron in the ground, no amount of clever scheming will put some there. Thus, it may well be that in Earth’s remote future there will no longer be any need for political systems —even assuming that there is such a need now—for the fundamental function of poli- tical systems is to arrange for the shifting of raw materials from one place to another with as little trouble as possible from the people who do the job. So—medicine, sociology, education and politics are leading us towards disaster! These are rather sweeping generalisations, but they have a great deal of truth in them, nevertheless. While the precise predictions made here may not come to pass, there can be no doubt in the minds of anyone who thinks about it sensibly, that the future is far from rosy, and the hydrogen bomb pales to insignificance against some of the problems that are going to face our remote descendants. Aren’t we lucky that we won’t be here then! Next month AUTHENTIC brings you a fascinating novel by Tom Carson, The Tabarni Document, stories by Harry Warner Jnr., T. D. Hamm, Veronica Welwood. Full supporting features. AUTHENTIC — A MONTHLY MUST! 46 comiclboolkks.conn