The July 31 , 1970 Honolulu Advertiser ran an clause by Jane Evinger about Hawaii becoming a destination for Education Department rather than just diversion . The piece quote intemperately from the preliminary written report of the Governor ’s Conference on the Year 2000 .
Both the clause and the report work under some interesting assumptions about the future , such as a guaranteed income whether you work or not . An selection appears below .
Within the coming 30 years , the report assumes , engineering will provide far more leisure and everyone , whether he works or not , will welcome guaranteed yearly income .
As a result , says the chore force , “ since there will be tidy sum of time to learn , there wil be no need for coercion . ”
The article was establish in the 1972 bookFutures Conditional .
See also : The Future of Leisure That Never Arrived ( New York Times , 2007 )
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