"THE WORLD IN 2030"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 13

"THE WORLD IN 2030"

PEEP BY BIRKENHEAD

BIRTH BY NEW PROCESS

(Received 14th April, 3 : p.m.) j LONDON, 13 th April. . Limitless motive-power stereoscopic 'television in natural colours, enabling a, Test match in Australia to be seen ■with perfect clearness in London; Par : Jiamentary. debates heard by everyone ending in a national vote by all electors like a Parliamentary division, within twenty minutes; disease practically abolished; agriculture superseded by food chemically made; every town self-feeding; beefsteaks m&de by, the ton in laboratories: synthetic liread, sugar, and vegetables cheaper than water; one week's work to three weeks' leisure for everyone —these are among the' forecasts in the Earl of. Birkenhead's astonishing book, "The JWorld in 2030," just published., An even more startling prophecy is ihe cctogcnetic birth and development of children from fertilised cells 'drawn from a woman's body and carried out in laboratories. !Kven the possibility of this process v<3ll arouse the fiercest' antagonism, from religious bodies of many creeds, but. aa it is scientifically possible scientists. are not deterred from its attainment. "If ectogonesis becomes an established part of human society, .the effect will'bo shattering,'! says- Lord Birkenhead. ."It will sopf arate reproduction from marriage, but ■women will ultimately accept it as the. price of freedom never yet achieved.. Eivjuyenation will be! the established tresult of a mere series of injections."

Lord Birkenhead predicts the federation of Europe transcending all morn nationality, with a new relationship ■between the British Empire and the .United States. Aeroplanes . will supersede motor-cars, except for shopping and. picnics. Government'by experts contralled by a referendum will take the place of party politics.