100 Years Hence

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 947, 14 April 1930, Page 9

100 Years Hence

NEW BOOK GLIMPSES FUTURE Women No Longer Mothers GREATER LEISURE BUT NO DISEASE AMAZING predictions about life 100 years lienee are made by the Earl of Birkenhead in liis new boob, “The World in 2030,” which has just been published. Apart from privileges such as one week’s work and three weeks’ leisure, and unlimited motive power, the writer says children of the future will be born in laboratories.

United P.A. — By . Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 12.20 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. Among the forecasts in the Earl of Birkenhead’s astonishing book, “The World In 2030,” which has just been published are:—Limitless motive power, stereoscopic television in natural colours enabling a test match -D Australia to be seen with perfect clearness in London, Parliamentary debates heard by everyone ending in a national vote by all electors like a Parliamentary division within 20 minutes, disease practically abolished, agriculture superseded by food cliemically made, every town feeding itself on beed-steaks made by the ton in laboratories, synthetic bread, sugar, and vegetables cheaper than water, and one week’s work .to three weeks’ leisure for everyone.

drawn from a woman’s body and carried out in laboratories. Even the possibility of this process will arouse the most fierce antogonism from religious bodies in many creeds, Out as it is scientifically possible, scientists are undeterred from its attainment.

“If ectogenesis becomes an established part of human society, the effect will be shattering,” the book says. “It will separate reproduction from marriage, but women will ultimately accept it as the price of a freedom never yet achieved.

“Rejuvenation will be established as the result of a mere series of injections.”

The book also predicts a Federation of Europe transcending all mere nationality with a new relationship between the British Empire and the United States.

Airplanes will supersede motorcars except for shopping and picnics. Government by experts, controlled by a referendum, will take the place of party politics.

An even more startling prophecy is that of pctogenetic birth and development of children from fertilised cells