@booklet {8937, title = {"Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Whole Earth}, volume = {no. 103}, year = {2000}, note = {

Originally published in Dudley Fishburn, ed. The World in 2001. London: Economist, 2000 [Not found].

}, month = {Winter 2000}, pages = {82-84}, abstract = {

Eutopia in a letter from a twelve year old boy living in Bangladesh, which is part of the South Asian Block of nations, in a high tech future. The U.S. is a member of the North American Trading Block, and power now resides in these blocks rather than in the individual countries; e.g. the U.S. President is largely a ceremonial position. The U.S. is somewhat backward in that\ it still requires human pilots on airplanes. There is a tunnel from Miami to Habana, Cuba. Genes are implanted to keep a child from developing cancer or HIV and to slow the aging process and increase intelligence. Trial marriages are common. People travel to Mars for holidays.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {William Douglass} }