Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects For Humanity

From the back A provocative and challengin blueprint for the future by one of the world's leading philosopher-scientists. The mankind has, perhaps for the first time, the prospect of a world of maximum abundance--imminent utopia. Man will be able to solve all the physicall problems of his existence because the real wealth of the world is information and energy. And these are increasing without forseeable limit. However, we have acquired the means of total destruction of the human race, too. The threat of nuclear holocaust is very real. Obsolete concerns with political systems, the pressures of unnecessary poverty, with its attendant riots and wars, can easily trigger oblivion. Now is the time for for changes--and here is how they can be made!