The 1972 bookFutures Conditionalcontains essays and list from many different futurist of the era . This list of headlines of the close future , by Billy Rojas , presents lector with events that will “ believably find – in some case undoubtedly happen – although not necessarily in the decree presented . ”
1972
February
Chiang Kai - shek dead in Taiwan ; new authorities is created that seek to “ modernise ” Formosa . Ten year program to replace most ideographs with Roman letters is herald . Major crusade is made to get up “ overseas ” Chinese – the millions is southeast Asia , the tenner of thousands in America – into a serial of formalistic trade associations .
March
Safe cigarettes invented : Lorillard stock promote 20 point in one daylight .
July
Chicago house begin merchandising robot “ housekeeper ” : mechanically skillful mouse to vacuum rugs and clear floors , automated kitchen that fix hot meals harmonise to consumer specifications , etc .
November
Team of Muskie and Adlai Stevenson III defeat Republicans for Presidency .
1973
January
J.Edgar Hoover release post as head of FBI .
June
Astronauts find evidence of sub - cellular aliveness on the moon – two billion years ago .
Jackie divorces Ari ; she plans to marry David Brinkley .
September
New Jersey becomes first res publica to decriminalize marijuana .
stone break up . New music stirs U.S. ; Cheyenne native rock - and - tom - tom radical tops charts .
December
Peace settlement reached in Middle East ; adaptation of Allon plan adopted on a “ phase - out ” basis ; Israel - Jordan to become joint secular state .
1974
Mao - Tse - tung meet bosom attack in China . win by Chou En - Lai . Red Guard “ company ” forms to challenge authorisation of the administration , cultural gyration becomes an underground movement .
April
Hovercraft “ skunk highway ” Bond sanction by Congress : Boston - Richmond route .
May
Haile Selassie dies in Washington infirmary . His demise removes last obstruction to United States in East Africa , a new land made up of the former states of Ethiopia , Kenya , Uganda , Rwanda .
South Sudan secede from Arab Federation ; civil state of war erupts as rebels take in encouragement and aid from Addis Ababa .
October
Houston doctor give away find of selective memory - wipe off drug .
Reagan vote down by 350,000 votes .
1975
Rescue in space ; Russians save Americans endangered on revolve distance platform .
U. of Oklahoma student disorders achieve insurrection proportions ; social skill construction destroy , 4 police force , 18 students killed .
“ Electro - pop , ” completely synthetical beverage starts a raw food craze : Electro - snax , Electro - suppers are marketed .
August
First space hospital ( 4 “ bed ” ) established by U.S.S.R.
Socialists return to power in Britain .
1976
storage locker restructure in U.S. , newfangled writing table of Education , Environment .
Sex - selection industriousness booms . Chemical treatment enable prospective parent to bias sex of offspring .
Allard Lowenstein defeats Buckley in N.Y. Senate competition .
1977
Temporary lunar cornerstone specify up by U.S. – 6 men , 2 months .
Famine conditions worsen in India , Java . communistic rotation develops .
Sexual sex act allowed in Yale sex male erecticle dysfunction . classes . Harvard follows suit .
Brazilian Christian church secedes from Rome ; “ second reformation ” as Dutch , some Americans , also walk out .
Tito give way in Yugoslavia , stillborn left-wing takeover to oust hand - picked successor .
1978
spiritual revival reported in Africa : Nigeria , Dahomey , Ivory Coast , Guinea become Baha’i country .
Japanese house announces gap of sea - chain , serial of float cities to accommodate 10,000 people each ; located in Polynesia .
Police strength retired in Seattle ; replaced by devote , plain dress community mass .
1979
First “ time traveler . ” Star of ten - year hibernation for Minneapolis mankind .
Radio signalise from vicinity of 41 Y Cygni indicate intelligent life in the macrocosm .
Laser “ array ” used by commercial-grade ship to navigate Antarctic water ; occupation business firm embark on fender plants on southernmost continent .
U.S. court system reformed . Modern features admit “ maximal time lag law ” – no more than 30 twenty-four hours between arrest and trial – and “ obsolete legislative act law ” – any law on the book is retired after 20 geezerhood unless specifically renewed by legislative bit .
See also : Sea City 2000 ( 1979)The hereafter of leisure time That Never Arrived ( New York Times , 2007)Space Colony potential ( The News , 1975)Civilized Adultery ( 1970)Space Colony Pirates ( 1981)The Population Bomb : Scenario 1 ( 1970)The Population Bomb : Scenario 2 ( 1970)The Population Bomb : Scenario 3 ( 1970)Closer Than We Think ! Robot Housemaid ( 1959 )
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