FutureWorld

Don't you just love retro science fiction? It seems pretty quaint now to think about early "atomic age" predictions of Godzilla-like monsters rising from a primordial muck activated by radiation. But the Information Scientist is giving us a future just as frightening: a world where attention spans are shortened and literacy is no longer dependent on reading. What would happen to aliens like Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still if they came to Earth and found a population so engrossed with their electronic toys that they didn't even notice the visitation?