The Year 2000
I'm reading, perhaps rereading, The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years . It was produced by the Hudson Institute in 1967 under the sponsorship of the The Commission on the Year 2000 , an initiative of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . It's a book that I've had in my possession for longer than I can remember. There's a mysterious bookmark about 2/5ths of the way into it, so perhaps I started it at least at some earlier point in my life. This book is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, the approach providing a framework for thinking about the future seems pretty rigorous and I'm interested in their techniques. Second, their future is now our past (at least mostly so), which provides some interesting insight into how well their techniques may have worked. I'm only a couple of chapters into it but so far it has provided some interesting insight into the history of looking at t...