AUTHORS' FOREWORD 



"MIRACLES AHEAD but 'when'? 1 ' 



That is the most baffling question that confronted the 

 authors when they undertook this venture into the troubled 

 realm of prophecy. In fact, we may as well confess that there 

 were times when we doubted the wisdom of a title containing 

 the word "miracle." We heard altogether too many dire 

 warnings "Don't get people's hopes up." "These things take 

 time." "Utopia can't be built in a day." 



On the other hand, we felt safe in depending on the un- 

 equivocal assertions of such hard-headed businessmen as Edgar 

 M. Queeny, who did not hesitate to say, "The possibilities of 

 the future, now that industry has embraced science, are so 

 limitless that only one forecast can be made with certainty 

 that the most extravagant prophecy will fall short of potential 

 accomplishment! " 



We had no intention of making this book an "extravagant 

 prophecy." We think it's a conservative one. But we just can't 

 say when. That is not dodging issues. We know that after 

 listening to the perfectly sound arguments of people who 

 have every good reason to know. For example, Walter Dorwin 

 Teague, the noted industrial designer, squares off against his 

 fellow industrial designer, Raymond Loewy, with completely 

 opposite views. 



Says Teague: "It is my firm conviction, based on direct 

 knowledge, that as soon as production can be resumed after 

 victory, the public will be offered new and greatly improved 

 models in most, if not all lines of consumer goods. And, as 

 soon as retooling and testing can be accomplished, new 



