Always some humor in reading mid-twentieth century predictions of the year 2000. Chase has a kind of charming naive faith that certain scientific advances will solve humanity's problems. E.g., fusion will not only solve the energy crisis, it will enable cheap desalinization of seawater thereby also solving any food or water crises. He thinks that moving to electronic money only would eliminate theft. I'm still trying to see how that follows.

The final chapter gives a snapshot of the life of a professor in the year 2000. The world he presents is peaceful but also creepily frightening, kind of like the Ned Flanders Big Brother world from the Treehouse of Horror.

The writing is painfully normative. Everything is through the lens of an entitled upper class white male. I wonder if the systems organization guys that were in the Kennedy administration were fans.