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sume that man will have solved such trivial and earthly problems as housing. writers of science fiction, from . wells onwards, have had little to say on the subject. they have conveyed the suggestion that men will live in great fort, with every conceivable apparatus to make life smooth, healthy and easy, if not happy. but they have not said what his house will be made of. perhaps some new building material, as yet unimagined, will have been discovered or invented at least. one may be certain that bricks and mortar(泥灰,灰漿) will long have gone out of fashion.but the problems of the next generation or two can more readily be imagined. scientists have already pointed out that unless something is done either to restrict the world’s rapid growth in population or to discover and develop new sources of food (or both), millions of people will be dying of starvation or at the best suffering from underfeeding before this century is out. but nobody has yet worked out any plan for housing these gr