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