translated by Michael Kandel
It is the first book by Lem I’ve read in English. (I’ve read it in Russian too, more than 15 years ago.)
He cited several well-known American theoreticians, who had calculated that, if things on Earth continued at their present rate, in four hundred years humanity would represent a living sphere of bodies with a radius expanding at approximately the speed of light. But new explosions interrupted the report. The futurologists, confused, began to leave the hall and mingle in the lobby with people from the Liberated Literature convention. Judging by the appearance of these latter, the outbreak of the fighting had caught them in the middle of activity which suggested complete indifference to the threat of overpopulation. |  |
I read in Wikipedia that Ari Folman is directing the movie based on The Futurological Congress. It’s better be good.
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