The 2030 Spike

CHAPTER 13

THE PURSUIT OFHAPPINESS

The circumstances of the basic unit of humanity – the individual – seem to be taken into consideration by planners less and less. This must be recognized as an important negative tendency, if only because the necessary adjustments to the 2030 drivers will require balanced, competent and motivated people. For several decades, some futurists have held that a ‘remake’ of the human species will be necessary if we are to cope successfully with the era of great and rapid change on which we are already embarked. Charles A Reich called for ‘a new way of living – a new man, a higher transcendent reason’, promising ‘a life that is more liberated and more beautiful than any man has known’.¹ The much maligned behavioural ...