The return of High Tech set the pace for our Civilization, to invent many things that belong in a High Tech Society, but by using this High Tech for weapons of massive destruction, and Unbalanced Elements, we are Polluting our Planet, our Bodies, and are setting up the End Times of Life on Earth. Our High Tech Ancestors (HTA), from Space/Heaven, Colonized Earth with Balanced Atom Elements, a few thousand of years ago, not millions. They have inspired Man with all this 'new' knowledge, but, with materialism as the Way of Life, the new knowledge has been misused. Earth is a Spaceship and a Materialistic Capitalistic Selfish Lifestyle, cannot last on an Earth or in a spaceship. All passengers on an Earth spaceship should have Equal resources. All 'things' must be Shared Equally with all the passengers, and the 'things' should be needful for Eternal Physical Life. The Balanced Atom Elements of Eternal Physical Life should be the Law that Man lives by. Christ is Balanced Elements/Life which Man should Serve. Anti-Christ is Unbalanced Elements/Death, which Man should not Worship. We are seeing the result of the Unbalanced Lifestyle, Man today Worships, and it is time to re-look at all our writings to see that Life on Earth did not Evolve, but digressed since the High Tech Colonization by our HTA. All this advance in High Tech during the last 100 years, has divided Society more and more, with the increasing of the Inequality of our Brothers/Sisters of Life. The Heterosexual Body Birth breakdown of morals, the Inequality between Rich and Poor, our genetic misbred bodies, and with war and rumors of war, we are on the fast track Lifestyle of destroying all Life on Earth.
Man is descendant from our HTA, an Asexual High Tech Society, that has High Tech Birth, the Higher Nature of Reproduction that gives Selfhood, an Equal Sharing Lifestyle of Balanced Elements, Peace, and Eternal Physical Life. Heterosexual Body Birth, the 'Fallen' Angel Lifestyle, Man that has been grounded from flying in Space, has set up dysfunctional misbred families, genetics, races, governments, religions, and pollution, disease, war and death. We do not have Selfhood Freedom, because we are in Human Bondage and are Slaves to people, places, 'things' and sexual acts, which are destroying the Earth. Are we ready to re-learn the High Tech Asexual Lifestyle of our HTA, where all people are reproduced in Asexual High Tech Wombs, have Selfhood and Happy, with no Genetic Imbalance or Birth Injuries, and where No One owns anything, but All have everything needed for Eternal Physical Life. Religion teaches this Lifestyle is the Eternal Lifestyle in Heaven. But people think of this Lifestyle as in the Spirit realm, for 'Life? after Death', and they do not Care about real Life. Life is for the Living, not for the Dead. We need to concentrate on 'Equal Eternal Physical Life after Birth' for All. Can we absorb the shock that there is a Literal Asexual Physical Lifestyle of the Species Man on Earths and in Space?
"Future Shock" By Alvin Toffler. "The acceleration of change, however, radically alters the balance between novel and familiar situations. Rising rates of change thus compel us not merely to cope with a faster flow, but with more and more situations to which previous personal experience does not apply. And the psychological implications of this simple fact, which we shall explore later in this book, are nothing short of explosive. - To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. He must search out totally new ways to anchor himself, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. Before he can do so, however, he must understand in greater detail how the effects of acceleration penetrate his personal life, creep into his behavior and alter the quality of existence. He must, in other words, understand transience. - Much otherwise incomprehensible conflict - between generations, between parents and children, between husbands and wives - can be traced to differential responses to the acceleration of the pace of life. The same is true of clashes between cultures. - This indifference to time can be maddening to those who are fast-paced and clock-conscious. Thus Italians from Milan or Turin, the industrial cities of the North, look down upon the relatively slow-paced Sicilians, whose lives are still geared to the slower rhythms of agriculture. Swedes from Stockholm or Goteborg feel the same way about Laplanders.
"Americans speak with derision of Mexicans for whom "manana' is soon enough. In the United States itself, Northerners regard Southerners as slow-moving, and middle-class Negroes condemn working-class Negroes just up from the South for operating on "C.P.T." - Colored People's Time. In contrast, by comparison with almost anyone else, white Americans and Canadians are regarded as hustling, fast-moving go-getters. - The ocean of man-made physical objects that surrounds us is set within a larger ocean of natural objects. But increasingly, it is the technologically produced environment that matters for the individual. The texture of plastic or concrete, the iridescent glisten of an automobile under a street light, the staggering vision of a cityscape seen from the window of a jet - these are the intimate realities of his existence. Man-made things enter in, to color him both absolutely and relative to the natural environment. This will be even more true in super-industrial society than it is today. - William James once wrote that "lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being". The rise of rentalism is a move away from lives based on having and it reflects the increase in doing and being. If the people of the future live faster than the people of the past, they must also be far more flexible. They are like broken field runners - and it is hard to side-step a tackle when loaded down with possessions. They want the advantages of affluence and the latest that technology has to offer, but not the responsibility that has, until now, accompanied the accumulation of possessions.
"They recognize that to survive among the uncertainties of rapid change they must learn to travel light. Whatever its broader effects, however, rentalism shortens still further the duration of the relationships between man and the things that he uses. - A well-oiled machinery for the creation and diffusion of fads is now an entrenched part of the modern economy. Its methods will increasingly be adopted by others as they recognize the inevitability of the ever-shorter product cycle. The line between "fad" and ordinary product will progressively blur. We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs. The turnover of things in our lives thus grows even more frenetic. We face a rising flood of throw-away items, impermanent architecture, mobil and modular products, rented goods and commodities designed for almost instant death. From all these directions, strong pressures converge toward the same end: the inescapable ephemeralization of the man-thing relationship. - Never in history has distance meant less. Never have man's relationships with place been more numerous, fragile and temporary. Throughout the advanced technological societies, and particularly among those I have characterized as "The people of the future", commuting, traveling, and regularly relocating one's family have become second nature. Figuratively, we "use up" places and dispose of them in much the same way that we dispose of Kleenex or beer cans. We are witnessing a historic decline in the significance of place to human life.
"We are breeding a new race of nomads, and few suspect quite how massive, widespread and significant their migrations are. - In each year since 1948 one out of five Americans changed his address, picking up his children, some household effects, and starting life anew at a fresh place. Even the great migrations of history, the Mongol hordes, the westward movement of Europeans in the nineteenth century, seem puny by statistical comparison. - This moving of executives from house to house as if they were life-size chessmen on a continent-sized board has led one psychologist to propose facetiously a money-saving system called "The Modular Family". Under this scheme, the executive not only leaves his house behind, but his family as well. The company then finds him a matching family (personality characteristics carefully selected to duplicate those of the wife and children left behind) at the new site. Some other itinerant executive then "plugs into" the family left behind. No one appears to have taken the idea seriously - yet. In addition to the large groups of professionals, technicians and executives who engage in a constant round of "musical homes", there are many other peculiarly mobile groupings in the society. A large military establishment includes tens of thousands of families who, peacetime and wartime, move again and again. - Tens of thousands of skilled construction workers add to the flow. On another level are the more than 750,000 students attending colleges away from their home state, plus the hundreds of thousands more who are away from home but still within their home state.
"For millions, and particularly for the "people of the future", home is where you find it. - Thus it is not surprising to find that wherever organizations today are caught up in the stream of technological or social change, wherever research and development is important, wherever men must cope with first time problems, the decline of bureaucratic forms is most pronounced. In these frontier organizations a new system of human relations is springing up. To live, organizations must cast off those bureaucratic practices that immobilize them, making them less sensitive and less rapidly responsive to change. The result, according to Joseph A. Raffaele, is that we are moving toward a "working society of technical co-equals" in which the "line of demarcation between the leader and the led has become fuzzy". Super-industrial Man, rather than occupying a permanent, cleanly-defined slot and performing mindless routine tasks in response to orders from above, finds increasingly that he must assume decision-making responsibility - and must do so within a kaleidoscopically changing organization structure built upon highly transient human relationships. - Warren Dennis, predicted flatly that "in the next twenty-five to fifty years" we will all "participate in the end of bureaucracy". He urged us to begin looking "beyond bureaucracy". "While various proponents of 'good human relation' have been fighting bureaucracy on humanistic grounds and for Christian values, bureaucracy seems most likely to founder on its inability to rapid change Bureaucracy", he says, "thrives in a highly competitive undifferentiated and stable environment, such as the climate of its youth, the Industrial Revolution.
"A pyramidal structure of authority, with power concentrated in the hands of a few was, and is, an eminently suitable social arrangement for routinized tasks. However, the environment has changed in just those ways which make the mechanism most problematic. Stability has vanished". - It is possible that for many people, in their organizational relationships as in other spheres, the future is arriving too soon. - It becomes clear that acceleration telescopes our ties with organization in much the same way that it truncates our relationships with things, places and the same way that it truncates our relationships with things, places and people. The increased turnover of all these relationships places a heavy adaptive burden on individuals reared and educated for life in a slower-paced social system. - In a society in which instant food, instant education and even instant cities are everyday phenomena, no product is more swiftly fabricated or more ruthlessly destroyed than the instant celebrity. Nations advancing toward super-industrialism sharply step up their output of these "psycho-economic" products. Instant celebrities burst upon the consciousness of millions like an image-bomb - which is exactly what they are. - The mass media instantly and persuasively disseminate new images, and ordinary individuals, seeking help in coping with an ever more complex social environment, attempt to keep up. At the same time, events - as distinct from research as such - also batter our old image structures. Racing swiftly past our attention screen, they wash out old images and generate new ones. -
"The result of this image bombardment is the accelerated decay of old images, a faster intellectual through-out, and a new, profound sense of the impermanence of knowledge, itself. - According to Stuart Berg Flexner, "The words we use are changing faster today - and not merely on the slang level. The rapidity with which words come and go is vastly accelerated. This seems to be true not only of English, but of French, Russian and Japanese as well". - There was a time when a man learned the language of his society and made use of it, with little change, throughout his lifetime. His "relationship" with each learned word or gesture was durable. Today, to an astonishing degree, it is not. - In art, as in language, we are racing toward impermanence. Man's relationships with symbolic imagery are growing more and more temporary. - The process of image formation and classification is, in the end, a physical process, dependent upon finite characteristics of nerve cells and body chemicals. In the neural system as now constituted there are, in all likelihood, inherent limits to the amount and speed of image processing that the individual can accomplish. How fast and how continuously can the individual revise his inner images before he smashes up against these limits? Nobody knows. It may well be that the limits stretch so far beyond present needs, that such gloomy speculations are unjustified. Yet one salient fact commands attention: by speeding up change in the outer world, we compel the individual to relearn his environment at every moment. This, in itself, places a new demand on the nervous system. The people of the past, adapting to comparatively stable environment, maintained longer-lasting ties with their own inner conceptions of "the-way-things-are". We, moving into high-transience society, are forced to truncate these relationships. Just as we must make and break our relationships with things, places, people and organizations at an ever more rapid pace, so, too, must we turn over our conceptions of reality, our mental images of the world at shorter and shorter intervals.
"Transience, then, the forcible abbreviation of man's relationships, is not merely a condition of the external world. It has its shadow within us as well. New discoveries, new technologies, new social arrangements in the external world erupt into our lives in the form of increased turnover rates - shorter and shorter relational durations. They force a faster and faster pace of daily life. They demand a new level of adaptability. And they set the stage for that potentially devastating social illness - future shock. - We are creating a new society. Not a changed society. Not an extended, larger-than-life version of our present society. But a new society. This simple premise has not yet begun to tincture our consciousness. Yet unless we understand this, we shall destroy ourselves in trying to cope with tomorrow. A revolution shatters institutions and power relationships. This is precisely what is happening today in all the high-technology nations. - Financial and political leaders secretly tremble - not out of fear that communist (or capitalist) revolutionaries will oust them, but that the entire system is somehow flying out of control. These are indisputable signs of a sick social structure, a society that can no longer perform even its most basic functions in the accustomed ways. It is a society caught in the agony of revolutionary change. - We are simultaneously experiencing a youth revolution, a sexual revolution, a racial revolution, a colonial revolution, an economic revolution, and the most rapid and deep-going technological revolution in history. We are living through the general crisis of industrialism. In a word, we are in the midst of the super-industrial revolution. -
"Only by accepting the premise that we are racing toward a wholly new stage of eco-technological development - the super-industrial state - can we make sense of our era. Only by accepting the revolutionary premise can we free our imaginations to grapple with the future. - The super-industrial revolution can ease hunger, disease, ignorance and brutality. Moreover, despite the pessimistic prophecies of the straight-line thinkers, super-industrialism will not restrict man, will not crush him into bleak and painful uniformity. In contrast, it will radiate new opportunities for personal growth, adventure and delight. It will be vividly colorful and amazingly open to individuality. The problems, as we shall see, is whether he can survive freedom. - it seems likely that the opening of the oceans will generate not merely new professional specialties, but new life styles, new ocean-oriented sub-cultures, and perhaps even new religious sects or mystical cults to celebrate the seas. - The increasing ability to alter weather, the development of new energy sources, new materials (some of them almost surrealistic in their properties), new transportation means, new foods (not only from the sea, but from huge hydroponic food-growing factories) - all these only begin to hint at the nature of the accelerating changes that lie ahead. - Whether we grow specialized animals to serve us or develop household robots depends in part on the uneven race between the life sciences and the physical sciences. It may be cheaper to make machines for our purposes, than to raise and train animals. Yet the biological sciences are developing so rapidly that the balance may well tip within our lifetimes. Indeed, the day may even come when we begin to grow our machines. -
"Microorganisms are already used in the large-scale production of vitamins, enzymes, antibiotics, citric acid and other useful compounds. By the year 2000, if the pressure for food continues to intensify, biologists will be growing microorganisms for use as animal feed and, eventually, human food. - Aren Tiselius: " nature is far superior to man, even to the most advanced chemical engineers and researchers. Now what is the consequence of that? When we gradually get to know how nature makes these things, and when we can imitate nature, we will have processes of an entirely new kind. These will form the basis for industries of a new kind - a sort of bio-technical factory, a biological technology. - The green leaf is a marvelous machine. We know a great deal more about it today than two or three years ago. But not enough to imitate it yet. There are many such 'machines' in nature. - Rather than trying to synthesize products chemically, we will, in effect, grow them to specification. It is quite obvious, that computers so far are just bad imitations of our brains. Once we learn more about how the brain acts, I would be surprised if we could not construct a sort of biological computer Such a computer might have electronic components modeled after biological components in the real brain. And at some distant point in the future it is conceivable that biological elements themselves might be parts of the machine". - Jean Fourastie: "Man is on the path toward integrating living tissue in the processes of physical mechanisms We shall have in the near future machines constituted at one and the same time of metal and of living substances " In the light of this, he says, "The human body itself takes on new meaning". -
"Like the geography of the planet, the human body has until now represented a fixed point in human experience, a "given". Today we are fast approaching the day when the body can no longer be regarded as fixed. Man will be able, within a reasonably short period, to redesign not merely individual bodies, but the entire human race. - New genetic knowledge will permit us to tinker with human heredity and manipulate the genes to create altogether new versions of man. - How close is cloning? "It has already been done in amphibia", says Lederberg, "and somebody may be doing it right now with mammals. It wouldn't surprise me if it comes out any day now. When someone will have the courage to try it in a man, I haven't the foggiest idea. But I put the time scale on that anywhere from zero to fifteen years from now. Within fifteen years". Joshua Lederberg: "Things like the size of the brain and certain sensory qualities of the brain are going to be brought under direct developmental control I think this is very near". It is important for laymen to understand that Lederberg is by no means a lone worrier in the scientific community. His fears about the biological revolution are shared by many of his colleagues. The ethical, moral and political questions raised by the new biology simply boggle the mind. Who shall live and who shall die? What is man? Who shall control research into these fields? How shall new findings be applied? Might we not unleash horrors for which man is totally unprepared? In the opinion of many of the world's leading scientists the clock is ticking for a "biological Hiroshima". -
"Dr. E.S.E. Hafez, has publicly suggested, that within a mere ten to fifteen years a woman will be able to buy a tiny frozen embryo, take it to her doctor, have it implanted in her uterus, carry it for nine months, and then give birth to it as though it had been conceived in her own body. The embryo would, in effect, be sold with a guarantee that the resultant baby would be free of genetic defect. The purchaser would also be told in advance the color of the baby's eyes and hair, its sex, its probable size at maturity and its probable IQ. Indeed, it will be possible at some point to do away with the female uterus altogether. Babies will be conceived, nurtured and raised to maturity outside the human body. It is clearly only a matter of years before the work begun by Dr. Daniele Petrucci in Bologna and other scientists in the United States and the Soviet Union, makes it possible for women to have babies without the discomfort of pregnancy. - Dr. Hafez suggests that fertilized human eggs might be useful in the colonization of planets. Instead of shipping adults to Mars, we could ship a shoebox full of such cells and grow them into an entire city-size population of humans. - We minaturize other spacecraft components. Why not the passengers? - Long before such developments occur in outer space, however, the impact of the new birth technology will strike home on earth splintering our traditional notions of sexuality, motherhood, love, child-rearing, and education. - In Hazard, Kentucky, lives a family whose members, for generations, have been marked by a strange anomaly: blue skin.
"According to Dr. Madison Cawein of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, who tracked the family down and traced its story, the blue-skinned people seem perfectly normal in other respects. Their unusual color is caused by a rare enzyme deficiency that has been passed from one generation to the next. Given our new, fast-accumulating knowledge of genetics, we shall be able to breed whole new races of blue people - or, for that matter, green, purple or orange. In a world still suffering from the moral lesion of racism, this is a thought to be conjured with. Should we strive for a world in which all people share the same skin color? - Dr. A. Neyfakh, predicts with a frightening lack of anxiety that the world will soon witness a genetic equivalent of the arms race. He bases his argument on the notion that the capitalist powers are engaged in a "struggle for brains". To make up for the brain drain, one or another of the "reactionary governments" will be "compelled" to employ genetic engineering to increase its output of geniuses and gifted individuals. Since this will occur "regardless of their intention", an international genetics race is inevitable. - In short, it is safe to say that, unless specific counter-measures are taken, if something 'can' be done, someone, somewhere 'will' do it. The nature of what can and will be done exceeds anything that man is as yet psychologically or morally prepared to live with. -
"The possibility of cannibalizing bodies or corpses for usable transplant organs, grisly as it is, will serve to accelerate further the pace of change by lending urgency to research in the field of artificial organs - plastic or electronic substitutes for the heart or liver or spleen. (Eventually, even these may be made unnecessary when we learn how to regenerate damaged organs or severed limbs, growing new ones as the lizard now grows a tail.) - Already more than 13,000 cardiac patients in the United States - including a Supreme Court justice - are alive because they carry, stitched into their chest cavity, a tiny "pacemaker" - a device that sends pulses of electricity to activate the heart. Another 10,000 pioneers are already equipped with artificial heart valves made of dacron mesh. Implantable hearing aids, artificial kidneys, arteries, hip joints, lungs, eye sockets and other parts are all in various stages of early development. We shall, before many decades are past, implant tiny, aspirin-sized sensors in the body to monitor blood pressure, pulse, respiration and other functions, and tiny transmitters to emit a signal when something goes wrong. Such signals will feed into giant diagnostic computer centers upon which the medicine of the future will be based. Some of us will also carry a tiny platinum plate and a dime-sized "stimulator" attached to the spine. By turning a midget "radio" on and off we will be able to activate the stimulator and kill pain. Initial work on these pain-control mechanisms is already under way at the Case Institute of Technology. Pushbutton pain killers are already being used by certain cardiac patients. -
"Under these circumstances, what happens to our age-old definitions of "human-ness"? How will it feel to be part protoplasm and part transistor? Exactly what possibilities will it open? What limitations will it place on work, play, sex, intellectual or aesthetic responses? What happens to the mind when the body is changed? Questions like these cannot be long deferred, for advanced fusions of man and machine - called "Cyborgs: - are closer than most people suspect. - Today the man with a pacemaker or a plastic aorta is still recognizably a man. The inanimate part of his body is still relatively unimportant in terms of his personality and consciousness. But as the proportion of machine components rises, what happens to his awareness of self, his inner experiences? If we assume that the brain is the seat of consciousness and intelligence, and that no other part of the body affects personality or self very much, then it is possible to conceive of a disembodied brain - a brain without arms, legs, spinal cord or other equipment - as a self, a personality, an embodiment of awareness. It may then become possible to combine the human brain with a whole set of artificial sensors, receptors and effectors, and to call 'that' tangle of wires and plastic a human being. All this may seem to resemble medieval speculation about the number of angels who can pirouette on a pinhead, yet the first small steps toward some form of man-machine symbiosis are already being taken. Moreover, they are being taken not by a lone mad scientist, but by thousands of highly trained engineers, mathematicians, biologists, surgeons, chemists, neurologists and communications specialists. -
"There appears to be no reason, in principle, why we cannot go forward from these present primitive and trival robots, at Disneyland, etc., to build humanoid machines capable of extremely varied behavior, capable even of "human" error and seemingly random choice - in short, to make them behaviorally indistinguishable from humans except by means of highly sophisticated or elaborate tests. At that point we shall face the novel sensation of trying to determine whether the smiling, assured humanoid behind the airline reservation counter is a pretty girl or a carefully wired robot. (*Footnote: This raises a number of half-amusing, half-serious problems about the relationships between men and machines, including emotional and even sexual relationships. Professor Block at Cornell speculates that man-machine sexual relationships may not be too far distant. Pointing out that men often develop emotional attachments to the machines they use, he suggests that we shall have to give attention to the "ethical" questions arising from our treatment of "these mechanical objects of our affection and passion".) - Professor Robert White implies, not only can we transfer the head of one man to the shoulders of another, not only can we keep a head or a brain "alive" and functioning, but it can all be done, with "existing techniques". Indeed, he declares "The Japanese will be the first to (keep an isolated human head alive). I will not, because I haven't resolved as yet this dilemma: Is it right or not?" A devout Catholic, Dr. White is deeply troubled by the philosophical and moral implications of his work. -
"The greatest and most dangerous marvel of all is the complacent past-orientation of the race, its unwillingness to confront the reality of acceleration. Thus man moves swiftly into an unexplored universe, into a totally new stage of eco-technological development, firmly convinced that "human nature is eternal" or that "stability will return". He stumbles into the most violent revolution in human history muttering, in the words of one famous, though myopic sociologist, that "the processes of modernization have been more or less 'completed'" He simply refuses to imagine the future. - As rising affluence and transience ruthlessly undercut the old urge to possess, consumers begin to collect experiences as consciously and passionately as they once collected things. - Pessimists tell us the family is racing toward oblivion - but seldom tell us what will take its place. Family optimists, in contrast, contend that the family, having existed all this time, will continue to exist. Some go so far as to argue that the family is in for a Golden Age. - It may be that both sides in this debate are wrong. For the future is more open than it might appear. The family may neither vanish 'nor' enter upon a new Golden Age. It may - and this is far more likely - break up, shatter, only to come together again in weird and novel ways. - The most obviously upsetting force likely to strike the family in the decades immediately ahead will be the impact of the new birth technology. The ability to pre-set the sex of one's baby, or even to "program" its IQ, looks and personality traits, must now be regarded as a real possibility.
"Embryo implants, babies grown 'in vitro', the ability to swallow a pill and guarantee oneself twins or triplets or, even more, the ability to walk into a "babytorium" and actually purchase embryos - all this reaches so far beyond any previous human experience that one needs to look at the future through the eyes of the poet or painter, rather than those of the sociologist or conventional philosopher. It is regarded as somehow unscholarly, even frivolous, to discuss these matters. Yet advances in science and technology, or in reproductive biology alone, could within a short time, smash all orthodox ideas about the family and its responsibilities. When babies can be grown in a laboratory jar what happens to the very notion of maternity? And what happens to the self-image of the female in societies which, since the very beginnings of man, have taught her that her primary mission is the propagation of and nurture of the race? - Not merely motherhood, but the concept of parenthood itself may be in for radical revision. Indeed, the day may soon dawn when it is possible for a child to have more than two biological parents. - Under such circumstances, what or who is a parent? When a woman bears in her uterus an embryo conceived in another woman's womb, who is the mother? And just exactly who is the father? - Furthermore, if embryos are for sale, can a corporation buy one? Can it buy ten thousand? Can it resell them? And if not a corporation, how about a non-commercial research laboratory? If we buy and sell living embryos, are we back to a new form of slavery?"
"Industrialism demanded masses of workers whenever necessary. Thus the extended family gradually shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged - a stripped-down, portable family unit consisting only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more mobile than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial countries. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, requires even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlining process a step further by remaining childless, cutting the family down to its most elemental components, a man and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social shoals, through job changes and geographic relocations, then the ordinary child-cluttered family. Indeed, anthropologist Margaret Mead has pointed out that we may already be moving toward a system under which, as she puts it, "parenthood would be limited to a smaller number of families whose principal functions would be childrearing", leaving the rest of the population "free to function - for the first time in history - as individuals". - If a smaller number of families raise children, however, why do the children have to be their own? Why not a system under which "professional parents" take on the childrearing function for others? Raising children, after all, requires skills that are by no means universal. -
"As the present system cracks and the superindustrial revolution rolls over us, as the armies of juvenile delinquents swell, as hundreds of thousands of youngsters flee their homes, and students rampage at universities in all the techno-societies, we can expect vociferous demands for an end to parental dilettantism. - Childless marriage, professional parenthood, post-retirement childrearing, corporate families, communes, geriatric group marriages, homosexual family units, polygamy - these, then are a few of the family forms and practices with which innovative minorities will experiment in the decades ahead. - The orthodox format presupposes that two young people will "find" one another and marry. It presupposes that the two personalities will develop over the years, more or less in tandem, so that they continue to fulfill each other's needs. It further presupposes that this process will last "until death do us part". - This "parallel development" theory of love carries endorsement from marriage counsellors, psychologists and sociologists. - It is possible to demonstrate that, even in a relatively stagnant society, the mathematical odds are heavily attacked against any couple achieving this ideal of parallel growth. - It is this change in the statistical odds against love that accounts for the high divorce and separation rates in most of the techno-societies. The faster the rate of change and the longer the life span, the worse these odds grow. Something has to crack. In point of fact, of course, something has already cracked - and it is the old insistence on permanence. -
"Serial marriage - a pattern of successive temporary marriages - is cut to order for the Age of Transience in which all man's relationships, all his ties with the environment, shrink in duration. It is the natural, the inevitable outgrowth of a social order in which automobiles are rented, tools traded in, and dresses discarded after one-time use. It is the mainstream marriage pattern of tomorrow. - We have it in our power to shape change. We may choose one future over another. We cannot, however, maintain the past. In our family forms, as in our economics, science, technology and social relationships, we shall be forced to deal with the new.
Male and female started out on Earth as Equal Caretakers. Our HTAs High Tech Lab in the Garden of Eden, reproduced the 'Original' Colony. After the Original Colony 'fell' to Uncontrolled Heterosexual Body Birth, all the divisions of Man began and all the rules to try to control them were set up for each division. Marriage was started to protect the female and child, but few go by these rules and are different in different nations, and races. Now we are trying to return to Higher Nature of High Tech Reproduction, but we need to understand about an Equal Asexual High Tech Society, and the rules for Equal Eternal Physical Life, which are Love of God/Life, and Love of our Brothers/Sisters on Planets and in Space, and learn Inequality, worship, pollution, and war 'no more'.
"Future Shock" will continue in the next chapter.