![]() One of the presents comes to suggest that the following stage of civilization would be cannibalism. The population explosion drives humankind into “discouraging persuasively and policely, full-scale deeroticization, compulsory celibacy, onanism…”. ![]() The congress features demonstrations, riots and social violence against the government while introducing a flying building consisting of eight hundred flats with maternity wards, kindergartens, schools, shops, museums, zoos, theatres, cinemas, crematoriums and, of course, forty TV channels. ![]() The book The Futurological Congress (1971) depicts a scenario in the throes of a massive population explosion that results in an excess of papers and presenters too numerous to allow for full presentations in the congress. Polish writer Stanislaw Lem published a stimulating dystopia where feelings of human beings will be manipulated in the future. ![]()
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