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Show President Fletcher Views The Future Fletcher Outlines Scientific Advances : y r.:ir-; ; 111 UiSV"v: I - I ; H : """" , - ? f ? ' J , ' President James C. Fletcher addresses Army ROTC Cadets. Fletcher is the first speaker to be featured in the new ROTC lecture series being conducted during winter quarter at the University. transplants, but rather with the developments de-velopments of artificial organisms. Perfection In 10 Years He went on to say that within 10 years medical men will be able to have transplants and physical substitutions sub-stitutions in just about every area of the human body. "Someday I hope that we'll be able to transplant trans-plant brains, but I don't see that time anywhere in the near future." Today "heart, cancer, and accidents acci-dents are the three main causes of death in the U.S. Hopefully in the next 20 or 30 years, we'll know why cells grow abnormally and what causes them to deteriorate." Talking about nuclear energy and it's impact on society, Pres. Fletcher Flet-cher disgarded any discussion about nuclear bombs and went on to discuss dis-cuss nuclear energy as it applies to new developments in the field of electricity. "Nuclear energy is a booming big business. One half of all new starts in the next 10 years will be nuclear. This, of course, will have a great effect on the power industry. It will further fur-ther make for cheap electric power." Revolutionary Process Pres. Fletcher, in continuing with his predictions, pointed out that ho believes the idea of direct mechanic power from nuclear energy would be revolutionary. "But not too many people are working on that particular project right now," he added. Summing up his remarks, Pres. Fletcher stressed the need for stability sta-bility in our society. "There has been," he said, "a tremendous impact on our society within the last generation because of science. There is a violent reaction in the form of nihilism because of the advances ad-vances we have made. Man more and more comes to consider himself him-self an inanimate number in this world of reason. Our next important import-ant step is to make man find his own importance in our culture and society." By DAVE ROWLAND Chronicle Staff Writer "Some scientists have proposed that the United States put artificial moons into orbit in certain areas of the country within the next years," commented University President James Fletcher speaking to the Army ROTC Cadets at the first Army Sponsored Winter Lecture, Lec-ture, Thursday afternoon. "The philosophy behind the proposed pro-posed move is obvious," Pres. Fletcher continued. "It seems that the most hideous crimes are committed com-mitted under the cover of darkness, and particularly when no moon is in the sky, so if an artificial moon is constantly present, illuminating the brightness of the real moon, criminals would be a bit more hesitant hesi-tant to act." Pres. Fletcher went on to describe de-scribe scientific and technological advances in such fields as biology, medicine, space, and nuclear power during his sixty minute presentation, presenta-tion, delivered to a capacity audience audi-ence composed mostly of Army ROTC cadets assembled in Orson Spencer Auditorium. Life Restored? Looking far into the future, Pres. Fletcher predicted that man will some day learn the secret of restoring re-storing life. "At the present time, man has the ability to revive dead people, for at least ten minutes after the time their hearts have stopped beating." However, the development de-velopment that usually spells doom for the dead is the fact that after a certain amount of time the brain, if it doesn't receive the proper amount of oxygen, dies. Freezing Is Answer The problem now at hand is to keep the brain alive as well as reviving re-viving the patient, said Pres. . Fletcher. "Probably the best answer ans-wer to the subject of restoring life is the concept of the freeze." According Ac-cording to Pres. Fletcher, the freezing freez-ing process will be used within'the next five years. A person dies, would be placed in a deep freeze system as soon as possible to prevent pre-vent de-composition, and after the secret of restoring life has been discovered, would be de-frosted and brought back to life. "As you can see, there might be some social and moral issues involved here," . mused Pres. Fletcher. Predictions Come True Delving into further predictions, Fletcher prefaced his speculation with the comment that in a speech given about three months ago, he had predicted that heart transplants trans-plants would be performed within a year. "How about that," he joked. Speaking about transplants in general and the recent outstanding developments in transplant operations opera-tions as evidenced by the surge of heart transplants in the past few weeks, Pres. Fletcher stated that "heart transplants aren't what they are cracked up to be. It's hard for example to get the right type of dead person for a transplant of hearts as well as many other organs." or-gans." Pres. Fletcher suggested that the real organ substitution breakthrough will come not with |