The Future

1. One of the people making predictions about the future 100 years ago was John Elfreth Watkins. His successful predictions from 100 years were digital color photography, pre-prepared meals, mobile phones, the rising heights of americans, slowing population growth, hothouse vegetables, television, tanks, bigger fruit, and the Acela Express. His unsuccessful predictions were no more C, X, or Q in the alphabet, everyone will walk 10 miles a day, no more cars in large cities, no more mosquitos or flies. Other predictions from a 19th-century German Chocolate Company 100 years ago was that the police would have x-rays, flying machines, movable houses, airships, undersea ships, North Pole trip, a water walk, a ship railway, a roofed city, theater, moving sidewalks, and good weather machine. Predictions from 50 years ago from Robert Heinlein was that there would be interplanetary travel, contraception and control of disease, the U.S. will start a "preventive war", intelligent life will be found on Mars, mankind will not destroy itself nor will civilization be destroyed. Predictions by Isaac Asimov about 50 years ago is that robots will neither be common or good, appliances will have no electrical cords, vehicles will have robot brains, wall screens will replace the ordinary sets.

2. The 19th-century German Chocolate Company predictions seem to be a wish-list of what they hoped to have for the future because they were extravagant dreams, but the predictions from 50 years ago are more accurate to what our generation is trying to produce. An example of a car with a robot brain is the Autonomous Car that drives itself.

3. The predictions that have come true are mobile phones, television, digital color photos, bigger fruit, tanks, appliances without electrical cords, and vehicles with robot brains. Some of the bizarre predictions were the good weather machine, and the U.S. starting a "preventive war".

4. There is a trend of us being able to fly, and devices helping us to communicate with each other. They seem to be focused on innovated transportation. Yes, people seem to be anticipating a better world because they are planning to travel all over the world in different ways and even to different planets.

5. Our future world will be shaped around our ideas and goals of the changing what we have now. I predict that we will have holographic devices, flying cars, no need to drive or walk anywhere because of actual hovering boards and cars. Almost like something indoor brain that will just pop up, not needing any devices or anything just thinking about it and it will be searched or defined for you. i see a whole different world with people not depending on things they normally depend on like cars, TV’s, phones, and other devices people can’t stop using today.

6. The future is in our hands because we will be the ones having the ideas to change the world. The future would not change if we did not continue to come up with ideas and put them into action. The government and the people decide what the future of our country is. The future is completely up to us and how we want to make it.

The Future is Coming