welcome back history lovers!! today we are learning about the future *cue images from The Jetson's* we are learning what people from 100 years ago predicted about the 21st century!! (and boy were they wrong)
1. The predictions people made 100 years ago includes, just to name a few, mobile phones, digital color photographer, pre-prepared meals, the rising height of Americans, television, one world-wide currency, and facetime, no mosquitos of flies, the letters C, X, Q would be taken away from the alphabet, we will be able to control the weather, deserts would become tropical forests, space elevators, there will only be three languages in the world - English, Spanish and Mandarin.
2. The list is definitely a wish list, I have not come across any "warnings" for the future. All the predictions must have sounded very exciting at the time, but what I have read there are no warnings.
3. The predictions that have come true includes mobile phones, television, gay marriage, pre-prepared meals, and space travel. Some predictions that were actually CRAZY includes a lot of underwater travel, like a whale bus, scuba divers that would ride on sea horses backs and people would race on sharks.
4. The trends/patterns that I saw was a lot of travel into the unknown, like under the sea, or in space, most of them are very futuristic in the fact of robots and machines literally doing everything. I also saw a lot of air travel, like cops being able to fly after a criminal, aerial fireman, and of course the classic, flying cars.
5. What I see in the future includes also a big leap in technology, like no more going to school, you were born already knowing everything or having an injection for eternal life. It reminds me of the movie, Host, they had injections for every type of illness/disease that existed. The future can be scary to think about because their might not be a future for us, the world could end in a matter of seconds. I bet that prediction wasn't made 100 years ago.
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