Future Progress

"1955 Atomic Flying Car"
     The future was always an interesting topic to people in history, so it is intriguing for me to read about predictions people have had. After reading the article on BBC, it's crazy how accurate some were. The man in 1900 that is being exhibited made accurate prediction for one hundred years in the future, like colored digital photos, mobile phones, rising heights of Americans, preprepared meals, population growth, television, and tanks. These were all more "wish list" type predictions rather than warnings, and these were of those that came true. On Smithsonian, fifty year predictions were made in 1952. It was predicted that there would be no other world war in this era and that the world would be continuously increasing in wealth and prosperity, at the same time the threat of overpopulation would no longer be a problem. There was another where someone predicted space travel to be much more casual and people to take daily trips to a number of surrounding manmade moons. Obviously some seem a bit inaccurate considering there are still no manmade moons, but the world has gained wealth and prosperity in the sense that there has not been another world war per se. There were a few more entertaining predictions displayed on Mental Floss. These were categorized as twelve year predictions as a German chocolate company made them in 1900. Some include, police with x-ray, flying machines, air ships, undersea ships, water-walk, ship railway, roofed city, theater, and good weather machine. These were all funny to see these people describing, and some were more accurate than others, like undersea ships rather than a good weather machine or ship railways. Almost all the predictions I read were more wish list than warnings. These all seemed to be fun predictions for these people to make and what they would hope to happen someday. They do seem to expect a better world and specifically improved innovations in technology. Three prediction I have for one hundred year, which is a pretty long time, are: cancer is finally cured, people will have travelled to Mars, airplanes will be even more advanced and taking people across the world much faster.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In-Class Write

1. After watching Lee Daniels’ The Butler, it is obvious that the film contains many real issues that were faced in the history of our country. America has had a long struggle with racism ever since it was founded, then a war even derived from the issue, the Civil War. This caused ripples all throughout the entire nation as people wanted everyone to have equal rights as stated in the Constitution. It deals with simple discrepancies in freedoms such as work hours and salaries differed between white and black employees. After watching and researching this film, I can see that this was the highlighted issue and the Civil Rights Movement was a common theme following the entire movie. This was the case simply because some people in America had the thought in their minds that one race was superior to another; this was due to White Supremacy. An article on NPR.org stated that The Butler is not a movie - “It’s A Movement.” Lee Daniels was the focus of this article as he went over some of his...
Read more

Paraphrase Practice

Original  Article Passage on DailyBeast by Allen Guelzo (Civil War professor) “It is on Lincoln himself that the most demanding historical exactness is fitted. And Day-Lewis wears it uncommonly well. His reedy-pitched voice reflects the numerous descriptions of Lincoln’s voice which described it as a tenor, with almost squeaky accents. He walks flat-footedly, as Lincoln did, wraps himself in a shawl, features only a tuft of beard at his chin (the luxuriant chin-whiskers of his early presidency had been shaved-down by the time of the movie’s events, in 1865), and quotes Shakespeare between off-color stories.” Paraphrase Day-Lewis exceptionally portrays Lincoln’s unique and significant roles in history. The many physical similarities that he possessed, such as his delicate, tenor voice, flat-footed walk, signature shawl, ruff beard, and common shakespeare quoted fables, played a great part in this intricate representation. Revised Paraphrase Lincoln's unique role in...
Read more

19th Amendment Research

Image
     After researching on History.com , there were many reasonable arguments highlighted in the efforts to give women the right to vote. Women were denied the right to vote simply because so many people in America had been used to it that way for so long and they were not willing to accept a change so quickly or understand the arguments of the women who fought for those rights. The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870 which gave black men the right to vote. Many women felt had felt unfairly "inferior" to men as a Women's Suffrage movement began in the 1820's. It was a small but growing movement and when the 15th Amendment passed, these women felt they could do something bigger. In 1878 the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) helped to finally get an amendment proposed to Congress, but it failed in 1886. The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded by abolitionists Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell in 1869 , the same year as the NWSA was founded ...
Read more