It was somebody in the 1950s, back in the early days of futurists when they mostly got employed by the World's Fair, before it was a license to print money.
Futurists can be Malthusians, it all depends on what's selling at the time.
Yes average life-expectancy is expanding, didn't say it wasn't. But it's not expanding at anywhere near the rate many futurists have predicted. According to some in the 1960s we should be expecting to live to 120 now. It's not my fantasy world, it's the futurists fantasy world. You have to devide up the predictions from doctors and the predictions from futurists, one of the halmarks of futurists is they don't actually know all that much about the field they are making predictions for.
OK, that's a very good point. I agree with you that there were more optimistic predictions made about life expectancy, but that they did not derive from the medical profession itself.
Futurists can be Malthusians...
I guess, but I don't consider the Paul Ehrlich types to be futurists, but enviro-whacko Malthusian Luddites.