EXPIRES: 1981

WRITTEN: 1961

In twenty years, the USSR will be producing almost twice as much industrial output as is now produced in the entire non socialist world.

The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Speech by Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Written: 1961

Addressed to: 1981

Source: Speech by Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Author: The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Category: Culture & Society

Annotation

2000

In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future. Citizens of the world's richest and most technically advanced nations will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change.

Alvin Toffler

2014

Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enforced leisure, the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!

Isaac Asimov

1975

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served... Low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

Jane Jacobs