2023-01-13
In 1929 Lord Birkenhead looked foward to the future 100 years thence - now nearly upon us.
Some of the stuff may seem familiar to those of us who try to achieve situational awareness ... but for the majority it will just be a bunch his lordship's musings that may have been randomly successful at predicting the future.
But could his success be down to foreknowledge of some kind?
"Physics is on the brink of a new synthesis, a fresh simplification and restatement of fundamental ideas"
Einstein? or something else?
"By means of the most efficient methods ... a pound of coal can only be made to yield energy of the order of one horse-power for one hour. Yet, locked up in the atoms which constitute a pound of water, there is an amount of energy equivalent to ten million horse-power hours"
"By 2029, the chosen spokesmen of each political party will be able to address every voter as effectively as he now can address the House of Commons. And so the electorate itself, rather than its representatives, may decide each vital political issue" (my highlights)
So are our lords and masters about to give up their political power to the plebs?
Well we are not yet at 2029, so before you get too excited, he could still be way off the mark.
But worth reading I'd say.
