ASTONISHING BOOK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 118, 15 April 1930, Page 8

ASTONISHING BOOK.

THE WORLD IN 2030. LONDON, April 13. ; Limitless motive-power; stereoscopic television in natural colours, enabling a Test match in Australia to be seen with perfect clearness in London; Parliamentary debates heard by everyone; disease practically abolished; agriculture superseded by food chemically made; every town self-feeding; beefstakes made by the ton iq laboratories; synthetic bread, sugar and vegetables cheaper, than water; one week's work to three weeks’ leisure for everyone. These are among the forecasts in tho Earl of Birkenhead’s astonishing book, “The World in 2030.” _ « An even more startling prophecy is the ectogenetic birth and development of children from fertilised cells drawn from a woman’s body and carried out in laboratories. Evep the possibility of this process* will arouse the fiercest antagonism from religious bodies of many creeds, but as it is scientifically possible scientists will not be deterred from its attainment. “If ectogenesis becomes an established part of human society, the effect will be shattering,” says Lord Birkenhead. “It will separate reproduction from marriage, but women will • ultimately accept it as the price of freedom never yet achieved. Rejuvenation will be the established result of a mere series of injections.” Lord Birkenhead predicts the federation of Europe, transcending all mere 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 controlled by referendum will take the place of party politics.