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What in the world will the
future bring???
Read the prediction for the year 2000 that were made in 1900 and indicate which ones
have actually come true.
o Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today.
o Liquid-air refrigerators will keep great quantities of food fresh for long intervals.
o Huge forts on wheels will dash across open spaces at the speed of express
trains of today. They will make what is now known as cavalry charges.
o Hot or cold air will be turned on from nozzles to regulate the temperature of a
house as we now turn on hot or cold water from faucets to regulate the
temperature of a bath.
o Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought
within focus of cameras connected electronically with screens at the opposite
ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.
o Electric currents applied to the soil will make valuable plants grow larger and
faster, and will kill troublesome weeds. Rays of colored light will hasten the
growth of many plants.
o Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the globe.
o There will be no street cars in our large cities. All hurry traffic will be below or
high above the ground…These underground or overhead streets will teem with
capacious automobile passenger coaches and freight wagons with cushioned
wheels…Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.
o Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance.
o Not only will it be possible for a physician to see a living, throbbing heart inside
the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work
will be done with rays of invisible light.
o Fast electric ships, crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from
New York to Liverpool (England) in two days.
