premise: Robert A. Heinlein envisaged a more optimistic future in his 1961 novel, Stranger in a Strange Land . Its Martian-reared main character advocates advancing the empathic capability of the human mind so humans can grok `embrace others with profound, intuitive understanding.
hypothesis: The novel by Heinlein proposed a gentler, kinder future in which humans could learn to be more accepting and understanding of each other.