A View of Century 21

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TitleA View of Century 21
Year for Search1969
AuthorsRoberts, Walter Orr(1915-90)
Date Published1969
PublisherThe Claremont Colleges
Place PublishedClaremont, CA
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In “A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized. 
Info Notes

Originated as the Twenty-sixth Annual Lecture Series of The Claremont Colleges in March 1969. 
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Author Note

The author (1915-90) was the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Full Text

1969 Roberts, Walter Orr (1915-90). A View of Century 21. Foreword by Louis T. Benezet President, Claremont University Center. Claremont, CA: The Claremont Colleges. Originated as the Twenty-sixth Annual Lecture Series of The Claremont Colleges in March 1969. MoU-St

Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In “A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized. The author was the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.