The Future is Not What it Used...
Wednesday 6 August 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)
...to Be. As a child of the 1950s, Richard Foster thought that by now he would be wearing a silver jumpsuit and spending endless hours of leisure zooming around on a personal jet-propelled backpack - all in a world where poverty, sickness and religion had been banished by technology. So what went wrong?
Playlist:
2/3. Trust Me, I'm a Scientist
Richard looks at how, in the 1930s, when capitalism and communism appeared unable to deliver utopia, HG Wells in The Shape of Things to Come and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World asked the next big question: can science mend our broken dreams, or will they just become nightmares?
