¶ Population Sequence
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"accounting assumption will be based on whatever amount of organized energy capability is required so as to make it possible for any man to travel around and enjoy the whole Earth, and be completely supported in doing so. There will be no such thing as deficit accounting. You cannot live on deficit accounting. You cannot eat deficitly or drink water deficitly. What is to eat is there-- as the water is there.
"All such negative accounting procedures went along with the need for exploiting others in the ‘you or me’ phase of man’s past struggle for basic survival.
“Much of the most exciting and important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation at all, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday relations of what we term the naivete and idealism of the child. This will be completely justified and not exploited or exploitable in any way. I think then that the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.”
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- THE YEAR 2000 reprinted in AD, Feb’67
