If I could but see a day of it ... A day in the year 2000-plus was the time William Morris had in mind when he voiced our common yearning to glimpse the future in his Utopian novel News from Nowhere. Now, Utopia, the ultimate in human folly or human hope, is subject to scrutiny by high-powered government forecasting agencies-think tanks-and by behavioural psychiatrists Their predictions come closer to Orwell's 1984 than William Morris 's dream world and seem to support the hippie philosophy that a dropping-out of our technologically orientated society is the only way to achieve Utopia. Prophecies, pleasant and unpleasant, are contributed by: Dr. J. Bronowski Herman Kahn and Tony Wiener Lewis Mumford Professor B. F. Skinner Viscount Weymouth and the members of a unique community of drop-outs in the Colorado Mountains William Morris is played by Frank Littlewood Commentary spoken by John Stockbridge