THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

Most of us are too busy scraping by and living hand to mouth, so that the opportunity to expand our historical  perspective is severely limited. In this Winston Churchill essay, Fifty Years Hence, 1931, the reader shares peering into a crystal ball that surveys the fearful inexhaustible march of scientific progress by civilization, and speculations on how it will all end without similar progress in moral and noble virtues for proper moderation.

​ In this piece, note how Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, also written in 1931, influenced his speculations about genetically engineering Gammas. He prophecies synthetic foods to replace animal meats using biological means, nuclear energy, and AI robots that threaten humanity’s existence.

This is a MUST READ, a Pass It Forward, piece that changes or enhances one’s perspective with startling effect. Do make time for this at all cost.

https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/fifty-years-hence.html

One could summarize his cautious opinion regarding scientific progress by this latter quote of his in 1951:
It is arguable whether the human race had been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting to a human race, so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages, such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.