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“Q: – What do you see man’s immediate future to be? From all sides we hear that we are on the precipice of disaster. You seem to have a very optimistic outlook on the future of man. What are your views on man’s immediate future?”
“Mr. Fuller:-- I certainly would say in the first place that it is very complex. I feel that man aboard our planet is in a very critical condition, evolutionarily. As to whether he is really evolving into whatever his function may be in the total scheme of the Universe-- whether he is really making good-- he is very much on trial. I can, as a student and experimenter, and an actual doer, aware of the technical ways in which it is highly feasible for all of humanity to survive at a higher standard of living than anyone has ever known. … But, I am also aware of the inertia and the conditioned reflexes which are permissible, and the small ways we seem to be preoccupied, and the shortsightedness of our preoccupation with today. So that the question whether man can make it or not: I would not presume to make any prognostication at all. All I can do is to try to find the factors which would tend to wave in one direction or the other, positive or negative.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at SILS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 12, p. 15.
