“A Nightmare”

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1992
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The World&I
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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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108-115
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January 1992

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1992 Kaplan, Morton A. (1921-2017). “A Nightmare.” The World&I (January 1992): 108-115. PSt

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]. The author 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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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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