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Future When a magazine for high-school students asked its
readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be
run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun to take
maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would "radiate light" and "change
color with the push of a button." Food would be replaced by pills. (1)
. Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000
(2) . The future is much too important to simply guess
about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to
predict accurately. (3) . But can they One expert on
cities wrote: cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space
for farms and fields. People would travel to work in "airbuses",. large
all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the
airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar
equipment of cars would make traffic accidents "almost unheard of’. Does that
sound familiar If the expert had been accurate it would, because he was writing
in 1957. His subject was "The City of 1982". If the
professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, it’s probably because
future study is still a new field. But economic forecasting, or predicting what
the economy will do, has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and
generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field, too.
(4) . In October of that year, the stock market had its worst
losses ever, mining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial
foreseers. (5) In 1957, H. $. Rand of the
Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000, "Only one thing is certain, "he
answered. "Children will have reached the age of 43." A. By carefully
studying the present, skilled businessmen scientists, and politicians are
supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. B. School would be
taught "by electrical impulse while we sleep." C. One forecaster knew that
predictions about the future would always be subject to significant
errors. D. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the
stock market. E. Everyone may look to the future for it is always
promising. E Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was,
"what will life be like in 19787"