"Philo Farnsworth before the Art Convention of Indianapolis, Ind." 3/23/62, 1962

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Scope and Contents

Introductory speaker talks about Farnsworth's work with television as well as radioactive materials.
Philo Farnsworth talks about population and how it will grow wildly in the early 2000s.
Time is a perspective, it has no physical significance, he believes that space is non-existent (?). He believes that mileage in space will work very differently as we get past Pluto because there will essentially be zero mass in the space.
He believes by the end of the decade speeds in space will reach up to 1000 miles per second.
Farnsworth says that if you live during the next ten years you will likely live 100 years, and if you live during the following ten years, you will likely live 1000 in terms of relative years. A little unsure exactly what he is saying here, but I believe he is talking about the rapid growth of technology in an exponential fashion meaning that life will not actually last longer, but that people will experience relatively 'more'.
Talks about his predictions for space exploration and his expectation that anyone will be able to visit Mars by 1970.
Farnsworth talks about fusion energy and how he believes it will change our life experience – individual energy sources with enough fuel for a lifetime for a small cost.
Talks about energy costs and what he believes will be their drastic reduction in price. Talks about heating the whole of New York City for less than a dollar.
He talks about the building of space colonies to solve what he believes is an inevitable population overgrowth.
Farnsworth discusses the building of bomb shelters as a civic project as opposed to a government sponsored one.
His wife tells the story of his attempt to develop a fusion device.

Dates

1962

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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