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Show Another World For Year 2001? Plant Workers Look Into Next Century FORT MADISON, la. Ever guess what your community and the world around it will be like when the next century begins? About 1800 workers here have recorded re-corded their guesses on that subject sub-ject and have made sure their prediction pre-diction can be checked 50 years from now. A record of ther prophecies, proph-ecies, encased in an oversize vacuum-sealed fountain pen, has been buried in a wall of the new Sheaffer Pen Company plant here. Peacetime use of atomic energy, airline flights faster than sound, person-to-person television and a doubling of the town's population will be realities in 2001 if the Fort Madison workers are good prophets. They did their sooth-saying in a 50-year game of 20 questions. Although 89 per cent predicted atomic energy will have been used in peacetime by the start of the next century, 83 per cent said the atom and hydrogen bombs will be used in war. Eighty-eight per cent foresaw another world war. A cancer cure will have been found, 84 per cent believe. So will a cure for the common cold, according accord-ing to 69 per cent. But only 26 per cent feel hopeful for a way to grow hair on bald heads. Mom's clothes budget still will be shocking Dad in 2001, the Fort Madi-sonites Madi-sonites indicated. Eighty-five per cent of them said "no" to the question: ques-tion: "Will women's clothes be standardized into utility suits or coverals?" Airline flights will exceed the speed of sound, 67 per cent prophesied. proph-esied. But only 43 per cent guessed a guided missile will have reached the moon. The United Nations will not be in existence, according to 56 per cent. Only 26 per cent said Europe will be federalized into one state. And there still will be just two main political parties in the United States, accord, ing to 57 per cent. |
