Back in 1981, futurist F.M. Esfandiary, who later changed his name to FM-2030 (look him up on Wikipedia), published his vision of life that in mysterious, far-future year 2010. This essay, titled “Up-Wing Priorities,” appeared in the now-defunct magazine “Future Life.”
Published by Tomorrow Magazine in June 1981
Powerful forces are revolutionizing life on this planet. Decades from now, the 1980’s will be remembered as a time when the world accelerated toward a new age.
Published by the New York Times on December 30, 1980
The entire world is at the beginning of a historic turning point. We are moving up to the post-industrial age.
Published by the New York Times on October 12th, 1979
Everywhere the prophets cry gloom and doom. Our energy future is a mess, they say; the prospects for the coming decades dismal.
Written by Leslie Bennetts and published by the New York Times on July 11, 1979
The world is moving toward an age of limitless abundance abundant energy, food, raw materials. Decades from now this late 20th century will be remembered as a period in which the world shifted from age-old scarcity to a new era of plenty.
Published by the New York Times on August 9, 1975
Soon it will be possible to extend human life indefinitely. After thousands of years of desperate struggle against death and deepest anguish at its inevitability there is at last .hope of winning that struggle. In research centers around the world efforts are now accelerating to overcome aging and, in time, death itself.
Published by the New York Times on September 24th, 1974
What elsewhere are regarded as problems, in the United States become magnified into crises-the urban crisis, the school crisis, the dollar crisis, the environmental crisis, the energy crisis, the Watergate crisis.
Published by the New York Times on June 28, 1973
The Arab-Israeli quarrel is developing into a monumental bore. While East and West Europeans, North and South Koreans, Indians and Pakistanis, American and Russians, Chinese and Japanese are all rapidly patching up their differences, the Arabs and Israelis, acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl.
Published by the New York Times on September 4th, 1972
This is the most promising and revolutionary era in our entire evolution. A spirit of hope and commitment is surging around the world. But in the United States a deep gloom hangs over the people. Americans are acquiring a reputation as the world’s greatest cynics and pessimists.
Published by the New York Times on July 3, 1971
In recent years, several countries of the Middle East have embarked upon extensive land–reform and other needed programs, which are launched vigorously and enthusiastically, but which soon run into obstacles and resistance and then slowly peter out.
Published by the New York Times on November 3, 1963