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Show Page 2B THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, November 22. 1979 Futurists See Grave Problems by Century's Turn (Continued from Page IB) These devices closely resemble the solar collectors that engineers are now designing to orbit the Earth and beam down microwaves. Orwell mentiojis the possible use of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies Today, work on synthptic RNA and recombinant DNA points toward a major breakthrough in this field within the next five to 10 years. " Goodman a former president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the World Future Society, says more than 100 of Orwell's forecasts are already fact, and that technological advances are so fall into the widespread they could wrong hands "The facts suggest that a number of different types of events could bring e about the abrupt appearance of a government. One such development is the sudden appearance of terrorist groups armed with atomic weapons," Goodman said. Goodman suggests that people faced with nucleararmed terrorists would demand perhaps even welcome some totalitarian limitations on their 1984-typ- lives. "Nuclear terrorism is no longer a remote possibility." Goodman wrote in hhs Fuhurist. Constructing a bomb is not difficult In at least two separate cases, a college student has designed an atomic bomb using only unclassified " information and weapons grades materials are now widely disseminated across the world." Furthermore, he says, nuclear terrorism is not the only "triggering event" which would prompt people to ask for more governmental controls. "Others include ecological massive famine, or catastrophe, limited nuclear war between the powers." While computers super- and other electronic devices allowed the government of Orwell's Oceania to control the lives of it population it is also apparent that they can help be beneficial to an extent. According to a technological survey completed lajt year by the McGraw Hill Publications Co. by the end of the century there will be widespread use of drugs which permanently raise the level of intelligence and chemically control the aging process. Computers at home and at work will allow quicker dissemination of information, according to the survey. The survey, which is conducted every third year, is a polling of more than 200 industrial firms and government and private researchers. According to the survey, aerospace technology could provide quieter and more energy efficient airplanes and weather forecasts reliable To some extent automobiles and other forms of vehicular mass transportation may be replaced by moving sidewalks, and by the year 1992 it might be possible for large segments of the population to be polled or vote for political candidates automatically without leaving their homes. In the field of medicine the survey artificial eyesight predicted for the 1990 and a in a cure for cancer by blind by the year breakthrough 1990. In orde- for the average person to better deal with a more technological life he or she will have to be educated more thoroughly in the use of computers and electronic devices. A recent survey of U.S. public schools for the national Institute of Education found that trend is already underway. About 28 percent of the schools sampled are now offering elec- y tive instruction in electronic processing and computer. data SINGER' MACHINE MAKES AGREATCHRlblMAb GIFT. IN FACT IT MAKES HUNDREDS OFTHEM. WVJLA ) This Stylist free-armachine can make a large of for less than halt the handmade gifts variety e cost of gifts. And with its 6 built-i- n stitches and front drop-i- n bobbin it makes sewing them a lot easier than most people think. 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