Custard tart, tea and a look ahead to the 20th century from 1979 to read. Depressing is how much climate change has radically altered things since these predictions. Much is pretty close though. #1970s #70s #2000s #00s #books #Bookstodon #futurism #SpaceAge #tech #technology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Spaceships #Space #Robots #Usborne #21stCentury #ModernWorld

When I was a kid and learning about Ancient #Greece and #Rome, Greece was all aesthetics, athletics and philosophy, while Rome was engineering, administration and law. Almost the #Germany of the ancient world. Interesting how different the image of modern #Italy is from that. #AncientWorld #ModernWorld

“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of #truth.”
René Guénon, #ModernWorld #Philosophy