Good thought Bets. He was a voice that demonstrated through the power of visionary idealism and science what might be. Even though quite a lot of what he projected has come to be, it's sobering too how much has not.

Many of those guys writing in the 60s had us having long since solved world hunger and on the way to the stars by now. Now things always turn out as they are meant to/need to, but viewed through a certain idealistic and partial lens we've really blown the opportunity of the past forty years - or perhaps what he and the others missed missed was the fact that the world was far more venial than they realised and that higher consciousness is the prime enabler of all.

Meaning that no matter what we can dream up in techological terms our effort will either be wasted by internal friction in the system (greedy attempts by individuals to get ahead at the expense of the other guy) or we'll misuse it.

It's often said we live in such a dangerous time - doomed to extinction if our rate of development of higher consciousness can't catch up with and get ahead of our rate of development of  technology....