A man I know quite well graduated from high school in May of 1969, with a scholarship and plans to study physics and mathematics at university in the fall. On July 20 of that year Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on another world. As a result the young man had no doubt about his future - he too would visit other worlds; perhaps he would live and work in space; surely the rising technology would bring an end to most of mankind's problems on Earth.

Fast forward to the present day. The man has never visited another world. Though a few men now live and work for short periods of time in space, his nation is no longer able to put those men into orbit. And as for mankind's problems on Earth - well, you be the judge.

The man never imagined that his future would be the dystopian future prophesied in science fiction!