WhIby Rue Pros, Wec*ioday, Jauuwy 6, 19W. PI 7 -PAGE SEVEN Exorps from "" Im'possible Possibiities' While sweating a bit Monday eveming trying to settie on a topic for this week's columnn, I camne across a > book. From the vantage point of 1968, the authors valiantly attempt to predict the world of 1984. _ Telling the future has always been a goal for peole Sme do it ini 'acceptable ways: weather foecasting, analyzing the stock markets, redictig_ political trends. Such examples could be calle products of a rational mmnd. Some people even take the- resuits seriously. - Others do it in more unorthodox manners. Psychics, fortune teilers, charaas, card readers, tea-leaf readers: these are uulygo for fun. Such exemples could be called prdcsoirrational minds. Few people take them seriosy bNow a few excerpts from 'Impossible Possibilities' by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Be er, published by Avon books originally published m rrnan under the m q titl De Plnetder unmoglichen Moglichkeiten (and no, Fim not making this u) So what will the world be like in 1984? 'The electromobile will be the vehicle of tomorrow. It will use gasoline as fuel... the fuel wiil be converted directl into electricity through contact with oxygen fromthe air." This car, however, will be limited to iner city travel. "Private cars will no Ion rb emte;in their place there will be amanl cars for hireail standardized and caale of being activated... b; th e insertion of a coin. Once the occupant has arrived, he simply leaves the car where it is." "For driving outside big cities, the electromobile offers definite advantages. Equ!pI nc be built in to prevent accidents and to prograin journeys... The driver inserts a punch card into the vehicle's electronic computer... The vehicle makes the journey by the shortest route without the driver needing te concern himself further." "(By 1984) ail electrical appliances will be N ETiMGOP0.P ENA rW S TOpC.10 independent of the plug. Domestic cehores will be made UIETFE RU FlE T Ui , WNstain , C* 1te910 Vht considerably easier by these innovations." Ti group of men, possibly fromn a fraternal orgamizatonistadnbedeheodWty and Port Perry railway station, demolished im 1970. It was locale where Hickory Street "Nuclear generators... will lie soon seen evervwhere passes Beaver Lumber, south of Dundas Street.htyAchv ht in the world. The export of such generators wilI'be the It'Achvpo Most important form, of industrial expansion for industrial nations, and the competition in ti field the most active form of the Cold War." ýp g f the ColdWar, where wl)1 W hge in 1W984?10 YEAES AGO ~~~4ILUIo the AW **e -- -J-. 5, 1983 .dition of the -resrigebetween capitalsiand communism fon Me WdnsdUa will lie over oth forms of society will exiast alongside e One hundred and twenty kilometre winds destroyed two homes under construction in the each other, and their conflict will be forgotten." eras Meadc>ws subdivision. And the use of computera? e Jeweiler Charles F. Mesher prevented a robbery ofie store by holding a man for police. "Th ma o 194 wllstat ot y binga en-içi *Murel cGhey ry reehir ec. St- Qhe1-WNlto n Dorothy Thmen wen re hnouired dreain of becoming cosmiic observers or de-stinologists. 0 An idiot nazned McRae lias been transferred froni the County Jeul to the lieuse of Refuge. These professions will certainly lie very difficuit, but * Charles Bond, aged 54, was found dead in has chair beide the stove, suffocated by gag theyr will formn the hub of the moat significant f iumes on Christmas Eve.I orientation of science."* wnytrepepeatneanahuteors iWit. Thiats 1984. Just think where we'1l by by 1993. 1 -nytre epeatedda gicluec sei1hty Il fi