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Thursday, September 9, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
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Home economist stresses need to
prepare families for the future
By Carol Harrah
The future of the world is beyond our
present technology, said a speaker in the
home economics field during a convocation
Wednesday morning in. the Great Plains
Room of the East Union.
Marilyn Home, a professor of home
economics and the past dean of the home
economics department at the University
of Nevada-Reno, spoke to a group of about
275 people from the Home Economics
College at UNL. She was the guest speaker
for the convocation and spoke on the
topic, "Readying Ourselves and Our
Students for the 2 1st Century."
Home said that people need to look
toward the future more often because it
is too easy to look at the present and
relate it to the past.
,4You can look at tomorrow with hope
and comfort. . . but let's say 1992 or
2002. . .," she said, "it's not as far off
as you think.
'Those times are a little bit nebulous. . .
but home economists are required to think
ahead ... we help people achieve a family
life that will help them look ahead to the
future," she said.
Home said that thinking more about
what lies ahead in our future is necessary
and technology should be a part of it.
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'Thinking. . . is not a waste of time.
It is necessary," Home said. '"We are
moving forward to thinking, rather than
acting, globally.".
Home praised people who think about
the future. She said that if some people
in our past hadn't been worried about
the future, we wouldn't be where we
are.
"It's always easier to look back than
to look ahead," she said. "Futurists are
people that are professionals. . . they
learn concepts that help us deal with new
ways of behavior."
Home cited Ellen H. Richards, the
founder of home economics as a career
and new behavior, as a futurists.
"Ellen H. Richards was a futurist.
She perceived people didn't have know
ledge of good nutrition and good sanita
tion," Home said. "She had a plan for
low-cost, nutritious and sanitary meals.
She founded the New England Kitchen,
a public food service that taught people
how to eat."
Home said this idea didn't work at
first, but when Richards got the approval
to go into the public schools to serve
meals, as long as all children were fed,
her ideas became ways of the future.
"Richards began this program about
100 years ago," Home said, "and there
is still a lunch program in the public
schools. She had ideas that are still in
use today."
Home explained that with our present
technology, people . can use home
computers to do things for them once
thought to be out of reach. She cited the
use of these computers as good sources
of information for people.
"No one can predict the future with
any certainty," she said, "but we can go
into the future better by using our present
technology and affluence."
Home said that one scary aspect of
computers and other, technology is how
Children in the future will handle it.
"Children in the post-industrial age
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Marilyn Home
could very well become more comfortable
with technology than with people,"
Home said.
She added that our future is dependent
on our technology.
"Whether we follow the path of hope
or disaster depends on if we use our
technology properly," she said.
Home said some people don't worry
enough about the future, possibly because
they don't feel they can look at it
optimistically or don't know how to look
at it.
"A lot of people who read "Future
Shock" behaved differently after they
read it," she said. 'They were afraid of
the future."
Home said she feels optimistic about
the future and people must decide how
they feel about it.
"Americans have a bright future.
There's a new morality on cutting waste,"
she said. "How you look towards the
future depends on if. you look at the same
bottle as being either ifialf fulf or half
empty."
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