Friday, 27 March 2020

The Hypothetical Psychotechnic Institute Series

See:

Conceptual Changes In Fiction II
A Debate About The Future
Comments On A Debate About The Future
Comments On A Debate II

I would be interested in a future history series on this basis:

the UN government continues to fight the "protean enemy";

the UN-, then Solar Union-, sponsored Psychotechnic Institute produces a growing nucleus of saner individuals and influences education and public opinion;

the government and the Institute are honest about their inability to predict or prevent social crises;

they are opposed by "Humanists" and others but not overthrown in a Revolution;

Planetary Engineers terraform solar planets;

generation ships, built around comfortable internal ecologies, are not psychotechnically engineered to generate social divisions and conflicts;

we eventually read about "...the end of human adolescence, and beginning of first mature culture," as mentioned at the end of Robert Heinlein's Future History Time Chart.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

However desirable such a scenario might be, as you outlined it, I'm skeptical that it will ever happen or even be possible. Because I think human beings will quarrel and fight about ANYTHING we can think of. And no mere psychology will eliminate that tendency for bellicosity from mankind.

Ad astra! Sean