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Winston Churchill predicted artificial wombs and lab-grown meat

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Churchill—when he wasn’t busy leading the fight against the Nazis—had many hobbies. He wrote more than a dozen volumes of history, painted over 500 pictures, and completed one novel (“to relax”). He tried his hand at landscaping and bricklaying, and was “a championship caliber polo player.” But did you know he was also a futurist? That, at least, is my conclusion after reading an essay he wrote in 1931 titled “Fifty Years Hence,” various versions of which were published in MacLean’s, Strand, and Popular Mechanics. (Quotes to follow from the Strand edition.) We’ll skip right over the unsurprising bit where he predicts the Internet—although the full consequences he foresaw (“The congregation of men in cities would become superfluous”) are far from coming true—in order to get to his thoughts on… Just as sure as the Internet, to forward-looking thinkers of the 1930s, was nuclear power—and already they were most excited, not about fission, but fusion: If the hydrogen atoms in a pound of wat

Winston Churchill predicted artificial wombs and lab-grown meat The Roots of Progress About the blog • Writing • Speaking • Bibliography • Subscribe • Roots of Progress Institute Winston Churchill, futurist Fusion, artificial wombs, and lab-grown meat by Jason Crawford · July 11, 2021 · 5 min read Churchill—when he wasn’t busy leading the fight against the Nazis—had many hobbies. He wrote more than a dozen volumes of history , painted over 500 pictures , and completed one novel (“to relax”). He tried his hand at landscaping and bricklaying, and was “ a championship caliber

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