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The factory of the future will
be smaller if it exists at all
Kidney patients
given chance
of full recovery
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Kidney trans
plants now of fer hope of full recov
ery for increasing numbers of Amer
icans with kidney failure, thanks to
improving techniques to overcome
rejection problems, a Boston special
ist says.
Although transplantation to cure
renal disease has had only limited
use so far, Dr. Andrew S. Levey, who
treats kidney disease at the New En
gland Medical Center, predicts that
recent advances in the safety and ef
fectiveness of the procedure will
make it more common in the f uture.
Unlike people with heart and liver
failure, patients with kidneys that
don’tWork can be kept alive by other
means — with the periodic use of di
alysis machines to remove toxic
wastes from their blood.
But Levey said in a report in the
Archives of Internal Medicine jour
nal that kidney transplantation from
related living donors provides “su
perior long-term results and re
mains the ideal therapy for chronic
renal failure.”
The problem, however, is that
only 2 percent of kidney patients
have such donors.
The alternative is kidneys from
dead people. Levey said this form of
transplantation has been seriously
limited both by the shortage of do
nors and by more severe rejection
problems.
But Levey said new techniques to
deal with the rejection process have
been developed in the last few years,
significantly improving the progno
sis for patients receiving kidneys
f rom cadavers.
Leveysaid patients now receiving
a kidney transplant from a living re
lated donor have a 95 percent
chance of survival for the first year
—- when the risk of failure is highest
— and their new kidney has a 85
percent chance of surviving.
If the kidney fails, the patient can
be returned to dialysis.
Patients receiving kidneys from
cadavers have a 90 percent chance of
survival for the first year, but the
kidney survival rate is lower — 65
percent. Until recentlyThowever, Le
vey said survival of the kidney from
a cadaver was only 50 percent.
Rejection remains the cause of
two-thirds of the cadaver kidney
transplant failures.
Levey said that with new tech
niques to reduce the rejection rate,
first-year cadaver kidney transplant
survival rates of 75 percent to 85
percent have been achieved by some
medical centers.
United Press International
NEW YORK — The American
factory of the future will be a lot
smaller than present-day plants
since, a new study predicts, there will
few people or products cluttering up
the space.
“You don’t need size," said James
Solberg, professor of industrial engi
neering at Purdue University. I he
machinery will become more com
puterized. You won’t have large in
ventories, and you won’t have as
many workers,”
Solberg is one of four experts who
have just finished a study on what
American factories will be like at the
end of this century — if they are to
exist at all.
‘T he real issue is economic com-
etition,” said Solberg. “What do we
ave to do to preserve manufactur
ing in the United States?”
The report concentrates on met
alworking factories, which Solberg
United Press International
PLAN, Spain — Bachelors in the
isolated farming valley of Gistai in
the Spanish Pyrenees say there’s
only one way to make life bearable
again — bring in a caravan of mar-
riagable women.
The aptly named village of Plan,
where there are 142 bachelors out of
700 people, is trying to organize a
grand-scale singles encounter to
calls “the biggest chunk of the pie."
Computers will do much of the
planning now performed by engi
neers, Solberg said. “ The big threat
is to white collar workers, not blue
collar. The enormous white collar
population will be reduced drasti
cally.”
All these jobs will be lost not be
cause employers need to eliminate
labor costs, hut because human be
ings cannot prepare a manufactur
ing plan fast enough to be efficient,
Solberg said.
The report predicts that in the
factory of the future, a single order
“will be processed in a matter of
hours, as opposed to the weeks that
are accepted as normal today,” he
said.
Routine orders may be made by
computer, and accepted by a com
puter on the factory end “without
any human attention,” it says.
Both the manufacturers and their
customers will want to keep inven-
help solve its problem of having few
women, fewer marriages and a
steady loss of population.
Daily hardships and lack of op
portunity in the valley in northeast
Spain have sent most younger
women to the cities to look for work
while many younger men stay be
hind on the f amily farms.
I he bachelors’ idea is to bring in a
large group of single females for a
tory low, so orders will be small, the
report said. But the computers will
respond so tjuickly to questions about
manufacturing plans that factories
will not require volume to keep costs
low.
The manufacture of sophisticated
products like jet engine turbine
ilatles will still recjuire human de
sign, the report said. But the work
will be done by a handful of people
clustered in two or three groups
throughout the nation, who will
serve many production facilities.
While the computers handle the
office work, robots will be working
on the factory floor, Solberg said.
But thev will be fai more sophisti
cated than today’s versions, which
are suitable mainly for repetitive as-
sembh tasks. The robots of the year
2000 will have sensory capacity and
the capacity to process information
and respond to unforseen devel
opments.
tour and a big dance, where they
could mingle with the lonely men.
They say the plan came to them
after seeing a 1951 American film
about a similar scheme during the
California gold rush.
Josefina Loste, mayor of the
nearby town of San Juan de Plan,
said she thought the bachelors had a
wonderful idea.
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