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Kahn and Wiener find it probable, for example, that the next 33 years will bring $20 battery-run TV receivers, three-dimensional film, home computers, prisonless penology and electronic prying into the human brain. Less likely, though still possible, are the laboratory synthesis of fetuses (possibly human ones), robot athletes competing in the Olympic Games, thought control, programmed sleep and laser beams capable of boring tunnels, taking a portrait of the atom, and detecting enemy missiles within a tolerance of inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shape of Tomorrow | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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