Man has always had a great curiosity about the future, about what life may be like tomorrow. This curiosity is part of his intellectual inquisitiveness which prompts him^£o picture the contours of
future society, inspired by the hope that he will finally be able to cast off the age-old
fear of implicable fate and become the master of his own destiny

Translated from the Russian

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