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Predictions of my own
If present rate of production continues to increase the average workweek will be only 7 hours, the book says. If they're right the boss-man will never get to know his employees. They'll drop in for a few hours Monday morning, if it isn't a holiday, and he won't see them again for another week. The average family income will be $6,000.00 a year, and there will mighty few poor people. The average family will have two children. There'll be more older people around. Fifty years ago a man was doing good to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Now he makes it to an easy 67, and in another forty years 85, granting that we continue to find cures for many diseases. People will be able to dress better for less money, on account of synthetic materials. Instead of a car in every garage, there'll be a helicopter on every roof. Young courting men will actually "pick up" their girl friends. More Predictions All of the above is what the book says. The authors had the advantage of charts, tables, IBM machines, and a big staff of workers. Now without the help of anything or anybody, I am going to make a few predictions of my own as to what it'll be like in the year 2001. You young sprouts of 60 should clip this column and check me for accuracy. First, people will still complain about taxes and they'll be buying atomic washing machines on the time-payment plan. Public sentiment will have reached the point where it'll be a death penalty to have singing commercials. At least we'll see some progress. Little children will ask their fathers for $5.00 instead of quarters. Our figures are based on the fact that in 1910 we asked for nickels. We hardly ever go them, but we kept trying. The American Cancer Society and the Medical Association will give out a report that evidence tends to show that smoking causes lung cancer and a group of independent doctors will come out with a statement saying isn't doesn't no such. Little Orphan Annie will still be 10 years old, wearing the same red dress and being saved just in the nick of time by Punjab and the Asp. Congress Still At It Congress will be arguing about some sort of Civil Rights bill and the Supreme Court will come out with an ultimatum giving the South just fifty more years to bring about integration of our schools. Dogs will still be biting the mailman and bald-headed men will be trying in vain to find a hair-restorer that really works. Divorce rates will continue to rise and married people will make a big celebration out of their tenth anniversaries if they can make it that long. Young people will start getting married even younger than they are now. Seniors in high school will pick up their children from the grammar school when they start home. Instead of vitamin-enriched food, they'll have tranquilizerenriched food. A bowl of cereal will keep you peaceful-like all day. There'll still be a lot of "tired blood" going around, which ain't nothing but plain old irondeficiency anemia. The New York Yankees will still be the winningiest, most unpopular baseball club in the American League, and good athletes from all over the country will still be going to Georgia Tech simply because they just love Atlanta. Alabama's football team will be "definitely improved" and Auburn will be lifted from probation. With a seven-hour workweek, people will have more time for recreation, lawn-mowing and gossiping. The latter pastime should very popular because there'll be so many more people to talk about.
Parents will be worried about the younger generation and the old folks will talk about the good old days back in the late 1950's.
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