Toward the Year 2018
Publisher: Cowles Education Corporation
Published: 1968
Place of publication: United States and Canada
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 188
Description: This exceptionally rare book is a compilation of just over a dozen scholarly articles. Each article is presented by an expert in a different field, and tries to predict what advances would be made in those fields. The time period covers fifty years into the future, which with the publishing of this electronic edition, is now almost nearly complete.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Emanuel G. Mesthene
pagenum: vii; label: Chapter 1: Weaponry
title: D. G. Brennan
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2: Space
title: Gordon J. F. MacDonald
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter 3: Transportation
title: Najeeb E. Halaby
pagenum: 35; label: Chapter 4: Communication
title: J. R. Pierce
pagenum: 48; label: Chapter 5: Weather
title: Thomas F. Malone
pagenum: 61; label: Chapter 6: Educational Technology
title: Anthony G. Oettinger
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 7: Behavioral Technology
title: Ithiel de Sola Pool
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter 8: Computer Technology
title: Charles R. DeCarlo
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 9: Energy
title: Charles A. Scarlott
pagenum: 114; label: Chapter 10: Food
title: D. Gale Johnson
pagenum: 126; label: Chapter 11: Population
title: Philip M. Hauser
pagenum: 136; label: Chapter 12: Economics
title: Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener
pagenum: 148; label: Chapter 13: Oceanography
title: Roger Revell
pagenum: 165