Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future

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TitleOur Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future
Year for Search1934
AuthorsLow, A[rchibald] M[ontgomery](1888-1956)
Tertiary AuthorsLow, A. M.
Date Published1934
PublisherWard, Lock & Co
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Predictions of a eutopian future with considerable satire. Much science and technology, but includes family life, religion, etc. One stress is on the changed society that will be brought about by real equality for women. The first chapter asks, “Can the Future Be Foretold?” and argues for a Ministry of the Future (17-19). Chapters: Men and Women, Sources of power, Air Travel, Interplanetary travel, Motors and Motoring, Radio and Television, Crooks and Detectives stressing technology and says  that education in science will eliminate criminals with children realizing that “crime in unscientific and non-technical” (113), The Future Law is primarily concerned with science and technology in law courts, The Next Wars, Doctors and Surgeons, Sports and Amusements, The Religion of Tomorrow is compatible with science, Education [No writing; no out of date subjects including drawing and divinity, use numbers rather than names for everything. “The object of all instructions in schools will not be so much to give people knowledge, but to teach him how to acquire knowledge himself” (186)]. Clothes and Food (no high heels, electrically warmed head gear, people will eat less food with most food as pills, no alcohol The Supernatural, The Family, The Weather (controlled), The Robot Age, Cities, Synthesis (“most foods, fuels, clothes and chemical . . . will be synthesized from air, water, and vegetable matter” [275]), Government (essentially replaced by science), End of It All, Summary. See also 1925 Low, The Future.
Info Notes

See also 1925 Low.
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Author Note

(1888-1956)
Full Text

1934 Low, Professor A[rchibald] M[ontgomery], D.Sc. (1888-1956). Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future. London: Ward, Lock & Co. 320 pp. L, MnU, O

Predictions of a eutopian future with considerable satire. Much science and technology, but includes family life, religion, etc. One stress is on the changed society that will be brought about by real equality for women. The first chapter asks, “Can the Future Be Foretold?” and argues for a Ministry of the Future (17-19). Chapters: Men and Women, Sources of power, Air Travel, Interplanetary travel, Motors and Motoring, Radio and Television, Crooks and Detectives stressing technology and says  that education in science will eliminate criminals with children realizing that “crime in unscientific and non-technical” (113), The Future Law is primarily concerned with science and technology in law courts, The Next Wars, Doctors and Surgeons, Sports and Amusements, The Religion of Tomorrow is compatible with science, Education [No writing; no out of date subjects including drawing and divinity, use numbers rather than names for everything. “The object of all instructions in schools will not be so much to give people knowledge, but to teach him how to acquire knowledge himself” (186)]. Clothes and Food (no high heels, electrically warmed head gear, people will eat less food with most food as pills, no alcohol The Supernatural, The Family, The Weather (controlled), The Robot Age, Cities, Synthesis (“most foods, fuels, clothes and chemical . . . will be synthesized from air, water, and vegetable matter” [275]), Government (essentially replaced by science), End of It All, Summary. See also 1925 Low, The Future.