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...subject so monumental calls for some unusual approaches. In one such departure, we commissioned science-fiction master Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to write a new story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind...
...told, TIME journalists consulted more than 200 futuristic thinkers to help shape this guide to the next millennium. We hope you agree that the result is an exciting preview of the world in which we will soon live...
With the new millennium just a few years away, futurism's mixed record is unlikely to dull the human impulse to peer ahead. Everyone should keep in mind, however, that there is only one prediction that can be made with confidence: look for the future to bring a lot more predictions...
...agenda for the next millennium should be to bring earth's population growth to a standstill and to reduce the gap between rich and poor. The rich may have to get poorer. If humanity accomplishes its own survival, along with that of a few other big animals and the life in the sea, it will do well. As to entertainment and sports, I would be content with less of both...
...starters, rockets will go the way of the dinosaurs. Future spacefarers will look back on the notion of sending people (or anything precious) aloft on huge, lumbering towers of flame and smoke as primitive, brutal and notoriously unreliable. Before the next millennium is very far along, humans will get their lift from space planes that take off and land like conventional jets but are powered by "scramjets" that, once aloft, will enable them to swoop into orbit or go halfway around the world in two hours. Cargo will be shot into orbit by electromagnetic rail guns that ramp...