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lines are crowded the country lanes become four-lane death traps, the fishing streams get polluted. The need for TV talent runs hopelessly ahead of the talent supply. Even the elephants and marlins have to be rationed. The theaters and courts and courses and pools and beaches and restaurants are congested with people who have just as much right to be there as you do. Only the cathedrals are still empty.

Because playtime is available to all. it comes back into perspective As a by-product of a busy. productive, relevant life, leisure is a boon and a balm. As the purpose of life, it is a bust.

More Interesting Jobs in the Future?

What lies beyond affluence for most people is not likely to be the use of their guaranteed income to finance their weekends and vacations. Young people especially will want to use their economic security as a launching pad for adventure, for "action

And most

of them will find their adventure, not primarily in their leisure time, but in their working time-if they can tell the difference.

Luckily. in post-industrial society there should be much more room for

workaday adventure. As new machines new kinds of energy and fast computers take over the drudgery men and women-and children-used to endure, what is left for people to do is the interesting, policy part of each task -the creative. planning, imagining. figuring-out kind of work. The fast but stupid computers, which after all can only count from zero to one. have to be fed by our more complex and agile human brains. their routinized wonders to perform. And the handling of relations among people has to be a rapidly growing industry when nearly everyone becomes, through education. a sovereign thinker and communicator -and communications technology makes remoteness and isolation

Harlan Cleveland

The author. Harlan Cleveland. has held many posts during his career, including that of US. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and President of the University of Hawaii.

While Director of the U.S. China Aid Program in 1948, he first used in a speech title the phrase "Revolution of Rising Expectations," which is attributed to him in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. In 1961 President Kennedy made him Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and in this capacity he worked closely with Adlai Stevenson, then 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 public-service executive training programs. (The book is available from the World Future Society's book service.)

Cleveland currently is Director of the Aspen Institute's Program in International Affairs. 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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matter of choice and not of geography or fate

How do we make sure there are as many interesting jobs as there are interested people? My prediction is that we will do it because people will insist on it. If we in the private sector can't find interesting work to do for those who want to do it the people will push their government into the vasuum that's what happens whenever in our history the private sector fails to get something done that the people want done.

One way to spread the jobs around has just been suggested in a report by the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress. If everyone in the work force were entitled to a sabbatical year-for upgrading of skills. changing their line of work or refreshment of the spirit-that would open up more than 14% more jobs, or twice the number represented by our 7% unemployment.

Who will be in charge of all this progress? In overall charge, no one: for growing complexity seems to require a constantly looser and more fluid administration of human affairs. But this, too, is good news for those who worry about whether there will be enough interesting work to go around. The general management of the United States is already spread among a million leaders or more, dealing with each other in mostly horzontal relationships. The post-industrial society won't work unless literally millions of men and women are acting, in their own places and functions as selfstarting organizers and energizers and innovators. Each year more and more Americans are drawn into positions as private and public leaders-not just more of us, but a greater proportion of us. My impression is that the same is true in varying degrees in other industrial societies.

So, in the 23 years from now to the Year 2000, and beyond, fewer and fewer of us will have an excuse for advocating a short day in a short week in a short year. The tasks that machines cannot do will be creative enough to lure men and women into 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 jobs and the shortest hours of work will die of man's most easily 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 Im looking forward to the Year 2000.

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Thank you for the opportunity to present testimony from the B'nai B'rith Energy Committee of Maryland for the January 1978 Committee on Science and Technology Hearing on Future Space Programs. Enclosed is the testimony and the abstract for publication in the records of the hearing.

Respectfully yours,

Bruce Friedman

Bruce Friedman, Chairman
B'nai B'rith Energy Committee
of the State of Maryland

PAPER SUBMITTED BY DR. BRUCE FRIEDMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE B'NAI B'RITH ENERGY COMMITTEE OF MARYLAND

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Born June 21, 1939, Brooklyn, New York.

Graduated Brooklyn,

College, Brooklyn, New York, June 1960, B. S., Physics. Graduated
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Ph. D., January, 1969,
Physics. From July 1967 to January 1970, worked in Naval Applied
Science Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York. Most of the time between
that job and my reporting to my present job at the David W. Taylor
Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Annapolis, Maryland in
September, 1974, I worked at the American Institute of Physics,
New York, New York.

Here in the Annapolis R and D center, most of my time has been spent in the Pollution Abatement Division.

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