In this prophetic and stimulating analysis, the famed British industrialist Sir Leon Bagrit discusses the new social and intellectual revolution now in progress across the world - a revolution made feasible by automation. As he charts the rapid advance of automation from capitalist U.S.A. to Communist Russia, he discusses its political and social implications: the economic shift from the accumulation to the distribution of wealth . . . the diminishing of differences between Communist and capitalist systems. . . the prospect for leisure that may release unparalleled creative forces, forces that herald man's golden age of opportunity and fulfillment.