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- <title>
- Oct. 15, 1992: The Future Poll
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 15, 1992 Special Issue: Beyond the Year 2000
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- SPECIAL ISSUE: MILLENNIUM -- BEYOND THE YEAR 2000
- THE GREAT EVENT, Page 12
- The Future Poll
- </hdr><body>
- <p>In which various intriguing questions are posed to the great
- American public
- </p>
- <p>If you had to predict, which of the following do you think are
- likely to occur in the 21st century?
- </p>
- <p> -- Scientists will find a cure for AIDS 75%
- </p>
- <p> -- Scientists will find a cure for cancer 80%
- </p>
- <p> -- Scientists will find a cure for the common cold 39%
- </p>
- <p> -- The average American will live to be 100 57%
- </p>
- <p> -- A woman will be President of the U.S. 76%
- </p>
- <p> -- A black will be President of the U.S. 76%
- </p>
- <p> -- Automobiles will no longer run on gasoline 75%
- </p>
- <p> -- Computers will be as smart as humans and have
- personalities like humans 44%
- </p>
- <p> -- Humans will make regular trips to other planets 43%
- </p>
- <p> -- Beings who live on other planets will come in
- contact with us 32%
- </p>
- <p> -- There will be one world government ruling the
- entire planet 22%
- </p>
- <p> -- There will be one worldwide religion 11%
- </p>
- <p> Compared with the 20th century, do you think the 21st
- century will have more:
- </p>
- <p> -- Wars 32%
- </p>
- <p> -- Environmental disasters 59%
- </p>
- <p> -- Poverty 61%
- </p>
- <p> -- Disease 53%
- </p>
- <p> -- Hope for the future 62%
- </p>
- <p> Which country will be the greatest threat to the U.S.'s
- dominant position in world affairs in the 21st century?
- </p>
- <p> Japan 22%
- </p>
- <p> Russia 14%
- </p>
- <p> China 13%
- </p>
- <p> Iraq 7%
- </p>
- <p> Germany 7%
- </p>
- <p> Will the Second Coming of Jesus Christ occur sometime in
- the next thousand years?
- </p>
- <p> Yes 53%
- </p>
- <p> No 31%
- </p>
- <p> Will religion play a greater role in the lives of people in
- this country after the year 2000?
- </p>
- <p> Greater 55%
- </p>
- <p> Lesser 37%
- </p>
- <p> Do you think the world will be in better shape at the end
- of the 21st century than it is today?
- </p>
- <p> Better 41%
- </p>
- <p> Worse 32%
- </p>
- <p> About the same 15%
- </p>
- <p> Which of each pair has had the most impact on the course of
- history in the past thousand years?
- </p>
- <p> Printing press 47%
- Television 51%
- </p>
- <p> Christopher Columbus 65%
- Neil Armstrong 33%
- </p>
- <p> Thomas Edison 55%
- Albert Einstein 41%
- </p>
- <p> Beethoven 58%
- The Beatles 39%
- </p>
- <p> American Revolution 46%
- World War II 50%
- </p>
- <p> Electricity 79%
- Automobile 17%
- </p>
- <p> Abraham Lincoln 59%
- Martin Luther King Jr. 36%
- </p>
- <p> Mikhail Gorbachev 57%
- Karl Marx 35%
- </p>
- <p> Gunpowder 41%
- Nuclear weapons 56%
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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