he aforementioned predictions about life in the future in the United States. The futurologist predicts a future run by machines, a world in which human beings are separated from everything that makes them human. But Berry points out that the futurologist apparently sees nothing wrong with such a future. The futurologist sees such a future as a desirable one full of conveniences and luxuries. Berry argues convincingly that the futurologists are fools who themselves have no connection with the real world:
The engineers at Purdue assume that technology can be substituted for biology (as for everything else) with perfect adequacy and safety. There is not an ecological, economic, political, esthetic, or social consideration anywhere in the account. . . . Technology has thus replaced truth; it has perfected the public lie (Berry 179).
Berry continues his onslaught on the futurologist by pointing out in greater detail that there is no human
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