Yesterday,Today,and Tomorrow Richard S. Rosenberg Department of Computer Science The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada VgT1Z4 rosen@cs.ubc.ca [Editor; Computers & Society, July 1985 to January 1993] n 1888, Edward Bellamy, a novelist and journalist, published a book, Looking Backwards, 2000-1887 that achieved considerable popularity, in it, he described the shape of American society in the year 2000 that had been built upon the principles of Nationalism "a form of socialism that Bellamy felt was consistent with the 'American way of life'." [Bellamy, 1983] I have no intention of reviewing the book here, although I do recommend it as an interesting view of the power of technolog> from a late Eighteenth century perspective. Bellamy's utopian vision, however, does present a view of a society made possible by technological advances to the benefit of all its citizens. If it is not obvious that attempting to predict the future is an enterprise fraught with danger, I include the following quotation from George Orwell [Crick, 1980]: I "It has been suggested by some of the reviewersof Nineteen E~gh.~-Fourthat it is the author's view that this, or something like this, is what will happen in the next forty years in the
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Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Rosenberg, Richard S.
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