THAT WAS THE FUTURE
By
WHIM WHAM
The Chief Ombudsman, Mr G. R. Laking, is to be chairman of a committee which will look at the impact on the individual of future developments in New Zealand. . • appointed by the Commission for the Future, to whicn it win report in a year . . .—News. Sir, many of Us find the Present Not particularly pleasant — We had our Moments in the Past, Ephemeral Joys, they didn’t last — And other Times — the most regrettable Which somehow seem the least forgettable. That leaves the Future! It’s a Kind Of Occupation for the Mind, A Field for Prophecies. Conjectures. Reports, Books, Articles, and Lectures — The Futures of the Past are Piles Of vatic Volumes, dusty Files; Too soon Tomorrow’ was Today, And the Day After on its Way. Some of Us felt it was a Pity Time couldn’t wait for the Committee — The Impact of the Future, on The Individual, had gone Before the Individual knew’ Just what, in the Committee’s View’, The Impact was. it just occurred. Before the Typists typed a Word; The Future of the Year before Wasn't the Future any More. The Media quoted the Renert — The Quotes were mercifully short. Their canniest Foresights came unstuck.' Hl settle for next Week — with Luck.
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Press, 18 February 1978, Page 12
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