In order to try and predict what the future will hold here in 2017, it is interesting to look at what predictions were like in the past. I researched what predictions were like 100 years ago, and then 50 years ago when there was more technology.
1) a. 100 years ago: My sources were Wired, and Smatterist.
People believed that: There would be flying taxis, robots would replace barbers, divers would ride sea horses, robots would clean kitchens, farming technology would be electric and run on cables, There would be an aviation police, schools would inject knowledge into students' brains through wires, and there would be torpedo planes.
b. 50 years ago: My source was Scientific American
People predicted automated ovens, cell phones, answering machines, travel to mars, roller-coasters, and the flat-screen T.V.
2) These predictions were more wishlists, than warnings. People were not really worried about technology that was coming, rather excited and hopeful for all of the strange things that they predicted.
3) Almost all of the predictions from 50 years ago were much more realistic and most came true. The predictions from 100 years ago were mostly bizarre and still very out of reach
4) The predictions from 100 years ago were very centered on travel both in the air and underwater. They also involved robots doing most common chores. The predictions from 50 years ago were much more realistic, and mostly centered around household improvements to phones and televisions.
5) In the future I can see time travel, cloning devices, hover crafts, travel to mars, and the discovery of life on another planet.
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