A BLUE FUTURE

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1925, Page 5

A BLUE FUTURE

PROFESSOR’S HALLUCINATION HENRY DUBB LEFT OUT.. (Sydney Sun Service.) LONDON, June 29. "Mankind is speedily approaching the stage when life will be sustained mentally, rather than by physical power, ’ ’ writes Professor Low in his new book entitled "The Future. He says that man will ultimately be enable to bear the slightest hardship. He will be forced to remain in his dwellings, only venturing into the open after special precautions. ’The normal day will include such horrors as radio alarm clocks, synthetic felt, and one piece suits. A hat will always be worn because human beings will be hairless]. There will be loud speaker news at the breakfast table, with television glimpses of events. Men will always travel in closed m. lor cars. Shopping will be made effortless by means of moving pavements and stairways. Communication will be by personal radio, with a metal aerial in headgear, involving talking through one’s hat. Food will lie prepared in communal kitchens. ANOTHER VIEW. A large head with bulging brow, supported on a body like a splinter of wocd, with short arms and legs, and perhaps hoofs instead of feet. This is the picture of the man and woman of two million years hence—ugly, weak and clever —drawn by Professor Conrad Tharaldsen, professor of zoology in t'e North-Western University, Chicago. The man of the future will, says the professor, be largely the result of gland control. Professor Tharaldsen declares that we have already started on this road. Many professors have attempted to lock into the future, but none so far as he. There will, he thinks, be little use for muscle in that dim period, and consequently there will be little muscle. ‘‘We are going toward that place which we shall never reach—Utopia. What we are doing is gradually fitting the individual to the environment. Every time there is a mating of germ cells there are 16,772,216 chances of variation, and it is the useful variations that survive.

7 ‘‘ln future glands also will have a greater function to perform. By regulating the glands we can produce child ren who will be workers and have intellectual interests —in other words, we can regulate reproduction. ‘‘Meantime,” continues Professor Tharaldsen, ‘‘man’s brain is growing, and the constant growth will demand a much larger scull, with a bulging brow. The man of the future will probably have to wear glasses. Some of the physical assets will be lost with the increase in brain power. We are gettng near-sighted and losing our sense of smell. ’’Society, consequently, will be different in generations to some. What the future man is like may depend somewhat on the fads and fancies of the present. Mechanical devices are fast doing away with the need for muscles, and the lack of use will cause the muscles to degenerate. ‘‘Except for hardiness and the power to withstand disease, physical bulk means nothing nowadays.”