The Space Age

Just came to mind something from Aldous Huxley from probably the very early 1960s where in response to the self-glorifying description of the times as being “the Space Age”, because of the move into space exploration, he said he thought the times would be much better described as the age of television addiction. He felt this enslavement had a slighter bigger impact on the average life than the rockets, manned or unmanned, that might be leaving the earth’s atmosphere every now and then, and so his description would be that bit more accurately reflective of the times.