Science Service’s predictions about likely technological advances were widely published in the nation’s press in 1958. Some were spot-on; others are still being pursued. Among them: the adoption of “artificial intelligence machines that will do things people do now.” Science Service (today’s Society for Science) was launched by E.W. Scripps and zoologist William Ritter in 1921. They believed “a healthy democracy depended on a public understanding of science.” (Note the coupling of a science story with a morning prayer by the Wichita Eagle.)
Roland Klose 