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Publication: Modern Power Systems
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The last lot of climatological gloomsters--the lot that came before the current global warming consensus--used to frighten everybody with its claimedly scientific evidence for the imminent onset of an ice age. However, the futurologists of the twentieth century did not restrict themselves to such frigid forebodings.

Some of them were Utopians, predicting the deliverance of humankind--in sufficiently developed countries--from want and drudgery as science and technology advanced. ([dagger]) Others thought that they saw a downside to that advance, though. As well as offering prospects of ever-more-leisure-filled and ever-earlier retirement for ever-less-severely-driven industrial workers, they warned that many such workers could be replaced by machines, which...

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