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...fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts are queried and re-queried for their forecasts, arriving finally at a near-consensus. Prognosticators concede that the timing and nature of pure inventions or basic breakthroughs-such as the achievement of atomic fission-are not predictable. In many cases, they must...
...hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been established long before A.D. 2000 and that men will have flown past Venus and landed on Mars...
MELINA MERCOURI'S GREECE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Including a wedding on Crete, the Acropolis, Athens, the Parthenon, Delphi, and the old Byzantine community of Mistras, with music by Manos Hadjidakis and singing by Miss Mercouri. Color...
...When their own doctors despaired of them, or when they despaired of their doctors, patients traveled to the little prairie town and there awaited the word of Mayo's medical sages with the same faith and assurance that the ancients carried to the shrine of the oracle at Delphi. Even today, when the U.S. has at least a dozen similar medical centers capable of giving equally competent care, the mystique of "Mayo's" persists...
...return for a free subscription to the CRIMSON for the coming year, the priestess of the oracle at Delphi has sent us by registered mail the following predictions...