Kornbluth wrote it. The main character did a Rip van Winkle and woke up in the future in a field. He walked to the road and hitched a ride. The car tore along at 60 mph, yet to the sleeper it didn't seem to be going very fast. As he found out, the speedometers had been set back to read 60 at 30 mph. This, to stop the 'morons' killing themselves. They were kept safe in other ways by the intellects that ran the planet who, if I remember correctly, lived in an underground city in the Arctic.
It was perhaps Kornbluth's most famous short story. Perhaps, again, science-fiction was ahead of its time! Harry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Malcolm Blackmore Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:47 PM To: [email protected]; RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Nuts in Chaos: Genetic inferiority threatens mankind, professor says Wasn't there a golden age science fiction story about this - the Marching Morons or something like that? That would be 70 or so years ago at least. On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:08 -0500, Steve Kurtz wrote: > http://world-nuts.blogspot.com/2010/03/genetic-inferiority-threatens-m ankind.html > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
