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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 878, 13 August 1910, Page 2

Mr T. A. Edison has been forecasting the future to an American interviewer. He thinks that “there is much ahead of us. We don’t know what gravity is; neither do we know the nature of heat, light and electricity, though we handle them a little. . . . Art will

be increased and distributed as we emerge from the dog-stage. Society will have to stay this whisky business, which is like throwing sand in the bearings of a steam engine,” Then he entered the realms of political economy ; ‘‘ln 2000 years by the cheapening of commodities, the ordinary labourer will live as well as a man does now with ,£40,000 annual income. Automatic machinery and scientific culture will bring about this result. Not individualism, but social labour will dominate the future ; you can’t have individual machines and every man working by himsell. Industry will constantly become more social and in-

dependent. . . . Bess and less man will be used as an engine, or as a horse, and his brain will be employed to benefit himself and his fellows.”