Year 2000 Predictions in 1967

In an article posted on New Year’s Eve, 1967, writer Andrew Squibb Jr. outlined predictions for the year 2000 – 32 years away – by the Commission on the Year 2000. Here is a list of those predictions:

6 or 7 billion people
Intercontinental travel by rocket
Decision-making by computer
Decline of US and Soviet control of world events
Abundant thermonuclear energy
Farming in the oceans
Mining on the moon
Permanent research labs orbiting in space
2 careers per lifetime due to longevity
Less disease
More psychological stress
Weather control
Population control
Personality control
Couples designated to breed
More clerks, researchers, and technicians
Routine use of drugs to alter behavior
Ten more countries with A-bombs
More leisure
Rationing of recreational facilities
End of democratic government due to apathy
Destruction of traditional marriage due to birth control and artificial insemination
Over-emphasis on education
More dangerous weapons available to poor countries
Widespread affluence
Humanely designed cities and housing
Decline in international violence
New sources of food products to feed a stabilized population