It is quite common to make predictions of how we are going to be in a certain time.In fact, we have an article exactly like that, as we will live in 100 years.Well, for you to see, it is not something new.
In the United States, for example, in 1900, a little over 100 years ago, a civil engineer made predictions that were not far from the current reality.Sure, some were not true, but it is incredible that many of them live today.
The train that covers the Boston-Washington route, today, reaches 241 km per hour.
and as for fruits, we can now see many varieties whose size, compared to the original, is noticeably larger.
As is logical , there were other predictions that I don't know, such as that in the English language the letters C, X and Q would cease to exist as unnecessary , or that the whole world would walk 16 kilometers a day, or that there would be no cars in the big cities (because traffic would be below or above the earth, and public, too), or that flies and mosquitoes would be extinguished-which would be an ecological catastrophe-or that university education would be free in all the world...Certainly, some of them would have been fantastic to have been fulfilled; What should be noted is his remarkable visionary ability, don't you think?
We invite you to read what Isaac Asimov predicted for 2014, and what humanity will be like in 1,000 years.
Images: Daniel Mennerich, mompl, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Marjan Lazarevski, Wikipedia
In the United States, for example, in 1900, a little over 100 years ago, a civil engineer made predictions that were not far from the current reality.Sure, some were not true, but it is incredible that many of them live today.
Incredible! 100 years ago, an engineer made these predictions and I guess almost everything!
John Elfreth Watkins , our civil engineer, wrote an article for the magazine Ladies Home Journal , which titled “What could happen in the next hundred years?”, Where he makes certain predictions about what according to his expectations could be lived in the 100 years that would run from 1900 to 2000, and it is amazing to see that much of what he wrote is a daily reality for us, inhabitants of that future.- For example, he predicted that Americans would measure 1 to 5 centimeters more .The average height of the American from 1900 was 1.70 m, and by 2000 the average was 1.75.
- He predicted mobile telephony and cell phones, incredible! He thought that wireless telephones and telephone circuits would expand communication. "We will be able to telephone China as easily as we now speak from Manhattan to Brooklyn" .Really, I am right!
- Another of his predictions was the precooked food, " it will be bought directly in the establishments, like bread ".Although he thought that the containers had to be returned to the premises.Not prior to the plastic…
- Digital color photographs for him were not a problem.I don't use the digital word, but if he predicted that there would be instantaneous, fot published only an hour after they were taken, and that would be reproduced in all the colors of nature.For the moment, a photo taken in China required at least one week to publish it in the West.
- And in this sense, one of his most interesting predictions is the television .Watkins said: "We will see around the world.There will be cameras electrically connected with screens at opposite ends of the circuit thousands of miles away" .Impressive, no doubt, especially because there was no television, and that prediction came true well into the twentieth century, with live television and then with webcams.
- " Normal trains will run at a speed of 3,218 km per second, and express trains at a speed of 241 km per hour ”.In light of the speeds reached today by high-speed trains, such as the last of Elon Musk-and that is still being tested-that would be able to do the incredible speed of 1,200 km per hour , we see that Watkins even fell short.
The train that covers the Boston-Washington route, today, reaches 241 km per hour.
- Larger fruits and vegetables grown in greenhouses...the truth is not much wrong either.Today there are countries whose agriculture is based precisely on greenhouse technology to better control production and pests;
and as for fruits, we can now see many varieties whose size, compared to the original, is noticeably larger.
- And the war issue could not be missed, of course.Watkins predicted that there would be large "forts on wheels" that would circulate through the spaces open at great speed.He was talking about the tanks, and it must be recognized that, although Da Vinci had designed and drawn them, Watkins was able to see much further.
As is logical , there were other predictions that I don't know, such as that in the English language the letters C, X and Q would cease to exist as unnecessary , or that the whole world would walk 16 kilometers a day, or that there would be no cars in the big cities (because traffic would be below or above the earth, and public, too), or that flies and mosquitoes would be extinguished-which would be an ecological catastrophe-or that university education would be free in all the world...Certainly, some of them would have been fantastic to have been fulfilled; What should be noted is his remarkable visionary ability, don't you think?
We invite you to read what Isaac Asimov predicted for 2014, and what humanity will be like in 1,000 years.
Images: Daniel Mennerich, mompl, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Marjan Lazarevski, Wikipedia
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