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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteHowever 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