The Future of John P. Franklin: Predictions and Possibilities

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The Future Of John P . Franklin : Predictions You Won’t Want To Miss Author: Your Author Name Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 June 2025 1 / 20. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterised the nineteenth century is over; that the rapid improvement in the standard of life is now going to slow down—at any rate in Great Britain; that a decline in prosperity is more likely than an improvement in the decade which lies ahead of us. In June 1930 Keynes expanded his notes into a lecture on ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’ which he gave at Madrid. It appeared in literary form in two instalments in the Nation and Athenaeum, 11 and 18 October 1930, in the midst of the slump. Futurist visionaries have been speculating about these possibilities for centuries. And now, as we head into an era of accelerating change, some of these longstanding predictions may actually. In 1930, amid a global depression, John Maynard Keynes pondered the question, “What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence?” The title was “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.”. In the heart of the Great Crisis, amid great uncertainty and concerns surrounding the future of capitalism, John Maynard Keynes launched his optimistic prophecy that growth and technological change will allow humankind to solve its economic problem within a century. His 1930 essay, “Economic Possibilities ,” offered a radical vision for what the world will be like 100 years into the future. Many are wondering if his predictions for 2030 will pan out. Franklin is the author of The Young Crusaders and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Education at the University of California, Riverside.