1. In an article from BBC News, the page discusses an early 1900's American civil engineer who made predictions about what the world would be like in 2000. Some of the predictions he made about the future 100 years from when he was living were actually right. His name was Elfreth Watkins. Most of his predictions were based on the growing interest in science and technology. Some of the important predictions that Watkins made that actually turned out true was the creation of digital color photography and the Television. From his words, Watkins wrote/predicted about photography, "Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later.... photographs will reproduce all of nature's colours." And then for his prediction about the television, the way he described it, he wrote, "Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span." When visiting another article on ABC news written by Michael S. James on the predictions about the future, he shows a different aspect of bizarre predictions. Scientists thought that we would have talked with the Martians by now and that their appearance would be of giant dragonflies with 72-foot wingspans. Hopes of travel by personal airships were also wished by the people back then. They predicted that people would be able to commute to their job across town by air or through submarines. Theodore Waters from the New York Herald in the 1900's predicted that cancer would be out of the question and could be cured at first appearance.
2. The list of predictions made by the people sounded more like a wish list to me than a warning. From the hopes of great entertainment systems being created like the television to meeting the Martians sound like ideas people back then wanted to happen.
3. The predictions like the camera and the television turned out to be true, but the most bizarre one I read about was the appearance and meeting of the Martians. Cancer being cured at first sight is also a little off-track.
4. Trends that I see were all somewhat scientific in their predictions. All the ones I happened to read about were traits or machinery that would be devised to fix an issue, or to create a more developed world. Everyone was more hopeful about their predictions rather than just jumping to the world will end as we see common in today's generation.
5. I see the cure for cancer being within reach. I think the technology being developed to create a better treatment or a better prognosis for it in the future. I have a bizarre feeling that the techno world we are moving towards will be more emphasized.
2. The list of predictions made by the people sounded more like a wish list to me than a warning. From the hopes of great entertainment systems being created like the television to meeting the Martians sound like ideas people back then wanted to happen.
3. The predictions like the camera and the television turned out to be true, but the most bizarre one I read about was the appearance and meeting of the Martians. Cancer being cured at first sight is also a little off-track.
4. Trends that I see were all somewhat scientific in their predictions. All the ones I happened to read about were traits or machinery that would be devised to fix an issue, or to create a more developed world. Everyone was more hopeful about their predictions rather than just jumping to the world will end as we see common in today's generation.
5. I see the cure for cancer being within reach. I think the technology being developed to create a better treatment or a better prognosis for it in the future. I have a bizarre feeling that the techno world we are moving towards will be more emphasized.
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