Claim: Carl Sagan once speculated about the dangers of a future United States in which "key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries", where people "have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority" and "no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues".
Fact-check: Is This Carl Sagan's 'Foreboding of an America'?
Verdict: true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Alex Kasprak
Date published: 2017-01-23T14:06:47