available to the entire world
ret of the discovery by Chi-
scientists of a cure for can-

his will go far to ease ten-
and create a basis for world
ity and understanding. The
ent of all world powers
n their entire stocks of
> devices and rocket appa-.
over to a world agency
the United Nations for
' explorations will complete
rocess of the establishment
mal living conditions on our

€ is my forecast. I concede
it sounds like fantasy today.
this is the characteristic of
tYyoture.

RRISON E. SALISBURY,
umnist (USA) :

co

a king’ machines
iends or foes?

nifar our machines are “nar-
meld specialists.” They still
4a tO go a long way before
offing the scope of human
ne lng. Can it be achieved at all

ve no doubts about it.

her with them your sweet-
your husband or perhaps
ourself will go to outer
ly 4 fly close to the stars and
aio knows? — perhaps even
aot on other planets. . .

n't know, Isabel, maybe I
ead of time, but science
hnology will perform what
nce Called “miracles.”

ou notice, Isabel, many
and phenomena around us
us of this old magic word:
wer, if you look at it close-
perfect symmetry of the
ake; the clouds at sunset;
ng of the butterfly — in a
all this is what an old
: h poet and monk once call-
© bliss of the world.”

€rmore, Isabel, you will
te to enjoy a thing about
" much, and still inadequate-
d today; a thing spoken
deceive people or conceal
‘ice; a thing that will cease
| an empty word when mis-
among people disappears
}ie danger of war is remov-
| €ver — you will be able to
| freedom,
dom, Isabel, like happiness
| us ourselves, There exist
les — and there will be
d more of them in the
— where this inner free-
y bloom and bear fruit;
€ other countries — those
talk too much of freedom
ich, like a bellglass from
the air has been pumped,
P the seeds of this inner

+ want it very much),
ve in a flowering society or
first rays of its dawn.

gaa MARIA ROSA OLIVER,
| public leader (Argentina)

_ the. help of any technical
ve? = ;

2biologists uncover more and

Isobel (I am sure of it®

more “secrets” of the function-
ing of the brain, the designers of
cybernetic machines will be able
to model mental processes with
ever greater precision and efficien-
cy, creating electronic — and
maybe not only electronic-appa-
ratuses more and more approach-
ing the original and_in many res-
pects not inferior to the human
brain.

This assertion may rouse cer-
tain apprehensions.

Will not, some people may
think, the machine become man’s
rival? Will it not oust him even
from those fields which he in-
tends to reserve for himself? Will
not technology thus subordinate
man, reducing him to the status
of a useless and inactive being,
-with all the dangers of degrada-
tion which inevitably arise from
inactivity?

My answer to all these ques-
tions is a definite no.

I think that if several hundred
years ago people had been told
of the possibilities of modern,
photography, fears would have
arisen lest photography should’
oust painters. Already in our life-
time the death of the theatre was
predicted when sound films ap-
peared.

The fears caused by the deve-
lopment of cybernetics are equal-
ly groundless. It will bring not
rivalry between man and the ma-
chine, not enmity between the.
machine and its creator; but co-.
operation, the possibility for man,
to do more useful work, to do
it faster and better.

The development of cyberne-
tics will not result in the ousting
of man from the sphere of use-
ful activity; it will help him solve
problems which he will soon be
simply unable to solve without
the aid of a mechanical brain.

VADIM TRAPEZNIKOV,
Academician (USSR)

&

A weapon of fantasy

In those years people will do a
lot of travelling in the stellar
ocean — just as a few fortunate
cosmonauts once did. I, however,
will be unable to make such a
trip because of my weight and
my extra-heavy baggage of books.
Naturally, I would like very much
to see them published on the
Moon. . .

What is immeasurably more im-

ortant, however, is the fact that,

aving put an end to the cold war
and nuclear threats, human intel-
lect and progressive forms of cul-
ture will call forth unusual hu-
man fantasy.

It will find expression not only
in beautiful verse and wonderful
sculptures, but also in material
things.

If we (my wife Matilda and I)
are still alive, we shall be able
to have lunch in Moscow and din-

ide __«_ ag

ner with my friends at home, on
the other side of the world.

And in case anyone will want
to write me a letter in those days
to come, I leave my address: Pab-
lo Neruda, Isla Negra, Chile. Isla
Negra stands near the tireless
ocean which rolls and rolls its
huge, mighty, foam-capped waves.
It is a place where even the dead
can dream.

PABLO NERUDA,
poet (Chile)

@

Prediction of a janitor

Waste will be almost complete-
ly eliminated, and the highest
possible efficiency will be re-
quired of all our productive faci-
lities, assuring a standard of liv-
ing for every American several
times higher than the present
level.

With everyone in possession of
an abundance, crimes involving
property — roughly 95. percent
of all crime in America — will
be eliminated, thus reducing our
annual crime bill running into

billions of dollars, in direct pro-
portion. z

With the people no longer com-
pelled by necessity to revert to
jungle law in. order to survive,
Christianity, for the first time in
human history, will be given a

‘fair trial. aa

The admonitions of “Do unto
others as you would have others
do unto you,” and “Thou shalt
love they neighbor as thyself” will
no longer be considered as

merely pious suggestions, but as

positive orders to be obeyed to
the letter “or else.”

GEORGE N. HEFLICK,
a man of many trades (USA)

x4

Surgery in the 1980's

Different people picture life
differently in 20 years’ time.

I, a surgeon, wonder what new
possibilities will open up for sur-
gery by then. And even more spe-
cifically, for restorative surgery,
the “branch of medicine which
seeks to return to man lost organs
or restore funciions of worn-out
parts of the organism.

These thoughts do not contra-
dict the adage that Nature,
in creating man, failed to create
any spare parts for him. Nature
has not done that, but man has
or, at least, he is working success-
fully in this direction.

And so if I say that I am con-
fident that 20 years hence sur-
geons will be able to replace the
human heart, kidneys, lungs, ears
or eyes, many might consider it
a Utopian dream. But I think that
this will become possible even
earlier.

In the sphere I am speaking
of, reality is often ahead of ima-
gination. :

Prof. ALEXANDER SHABANOV,
surgeon (USSR)

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