Playboy Polls The Prophets

January, 1969

Playboy Polls the ProphetsThe More Parlous the time we live in, the more people yearn for answers, for some insight into the future that will tell them what to expect--whether good or bad. It is uncertainty that is intolerable, and it is in fractious and uncertain periods in man's history that he has turned to oracles, seers and prophets, seeking to obtain from them some glimpse of things to come. Today, recourse is most often to science: Sophisticated computers are fed reams of data to process...