kinds of energy and tast computers take over the drudgery men and women-and chudren used to endure what see people to do i the nteresting, poucy part of each task creative planning Fauning-our kind of work. The tast but stupid computers what ather a can ony Cunt from zer one have to be red by our more compies and agje human brains their red w3Dders to perform And the hand..ng of relates among people has t be a rapy wing industry when nearly everyone becomes through education a sovereign thinker and communicator and Commates technology maxes remoteness and 150lator

The author, Harlan Cleveland has held many posts during his career including that of US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation and President of the Universty of Hawai

Whie Director of the US China Aid Program in 1948, he first used in a speech title the phrase Revolution of Rising Expectations which is attributed to himn Bartlett's Famar Quotations In 1961 President Kennedy made him Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and in this capacity he worked closely with Adla: Stevenson ther US Ambassador to the United Nations

Cleveland's continuing professional fascination with administrative complexity is reflected in his 1972 book The Future Executive Harper & Row $9.95 which is widely used in business and pubic-service execu tive training programs The book is ava.able trom the World Future Society s bock service

Cleveland currently is Director of the Aspen Institute's Program in Internationa. Attairs His article is adapted from remarks he made at a panel on The Quality of Life in the Year 2000

Cleveland's current address is Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Rose dale Road, Post Office Box 2820, Princeton New Jersey 08540

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Who w. ben charge of all this progress in overa charge no 200 for growing complexity seems to re quire a constantly wooser and more :d admistration of human arta.rs But thos toc is good news for those who worry about whether there w be enough m'eresting work to around The general management of the Cured States is areads spread among a me leaders or more deal 108 with each other un zontal relationships The post-industria society wont work ruess aterally me ons of mer and women are acting r their own places and hunchors as setstarting organizers and energizers and innovators Each year more and more Americans are drawn to positions as private and pubuk leaders-not "st more of us but a greater proportion of us My impression is that the same is true in varying degrees in other indus tral societies

Se in the 23 years from now to the Year 2000 and bey and fewer and fewer of us we have an excuse for advxating a short day in a short week in a short year The tasks that ma chines cannot do will be creative enough to lure men and women to work schedules that are lengthened by the sheer excitement of the work to be done

In such a society the people who seek the easy tobs and the shortest hours of work wil die of man's most easy curable disease-absence of adventure suffocation of the spirit, and boredom of the brain The age at which they die of these avoidable maladies will hardly matter Died at 40 buried at 70 will be their epitaph I don't know about you But I m looking forward to the Year 2000 & THE FUTURIST, October 1977

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