[PeterPrinciple]

Sending men to the moon in 1913 sounded about as implausible as sending men to a different galaxy today.

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Just a thought but there might be another perspective. I look back at that time and see much enthusiasm and belief and action on that belief. There were plane clubs, radio clubs, and EVERYONE was looking forward to their new future. Kids played with chemistry sets, radio sets, etc.

We had clear vision of what we wanted. “to go to the moon in this decade.” We set goals and reached them both personally and for the nation.

But when you manage for what you don’t want, you get lost. We don’t want poverty, we don’t want pollution, we don’t want to offend anyone........................

[Fledermaus]

Interesting.

Even though, a lot of the future written about usually has solved those “what we want” problems but I never really fell for it since a lot of the future confrontations were still whining about them.