One of two stories, this utopian, the other dystopian, in this issue of The World&I that has a special section on A Choice of Futures. Both are extrapolations, this one of this one of what the author perceives as negative trends that are noted to be similar to Huxley and Orwell: Society controlled by computers, drugs, and gene therapy. The article is an updating of a chapter in the author’s Macropolitics: Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Politics (Chicago, IL: Aldine/Transaction, 2005), 197-205. [The book was originally published in 1969].
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C6 -The author (1921-2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago, President of the Professors World Peace Academy International, and Editor of the World&I from its founding in 1986 until 2004.
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DA - 01/1992 N2 -One of two stories, this utopian, the other dystopian, in this issue of The World&I that has a special section on A Choice of Futures. Both are extrapolations, this one of this one of what the author perceives as negative trends that are noted to be similar to Huxley and Orwell: Society controlled by computers, drugs, and gene therapy. The article is an updating of a chapter in the author’s Macropolitics: Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Politics (Chicago, IL: Aldine/Transaction, 2005), 197-205. [The book was originally published in 1969].
PY - 1992 SP - 108 EP - 115 T2 - The World&I TI - “A Nightmare” ER -