Posted on 05/31/2005 12:14:18 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Liquid-air refrigerators will keep great quantities of food fresh for long intervals. 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. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of a bath. 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. 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. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. 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. Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. 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. Fast electric ships, crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from New York to Liverpool [England} in two days. There will be Air-Ships, but they will not successfully compete with surface cars and water vessels for passenger or freight traffic. Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes, and will sound as harmonious as though enjoyed from a theater box. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. Predictions taken from The Ladies Home Journal - 1900
Some futurist has been away from the farm for way too long. Meat is muscle.
Flying car?
Well I do have a private pilots certificate. I recommend it to anyone interested in aviation.
Yes -- I was wondering if this is an urban myth. Sourcing?
AngryJawa wrote:
Where's my flying car? I was promised a flying car...
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