"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Aldous Huxley

The essay "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is interesting because of how accurate it is, when it was written forty or fifty years ago. This is because there are certain things that will happen, given a large enough span of time, like Huxley says, that the real difficulty in predicting the future is what will happen in the near future. This is all very true, that there will be famine, war, and prosperity in the next two hundred years, but which will happen in the next two? Huxley makes an interesting comment near the end of the essay "that we shall be discontented with our good time goes without saying. Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted." This is very true, because if one thinks about all of the inventions that have been made just since when this essay was written, how many of them does one take for granted every time they are used? Most likely all of them. Also, one last point Huxley makes is about technology, and how it will have evolved by the year 2050. All of the inventions he speaks of, cultivating alge and other plants that are not though of for food, solving the world's hunger problems by giving extra capital produced by the United States to countries that are striken with famine and whose people are starving. These solutions are very good in theory, however, they are as wild as the possiblity of creating the Marshall Plan of which he speaks.