"What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
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"What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
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Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#2Interesting, but almost impossible to read because the scanner resolution is too low.
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#3The one plausible idea that has not been introduced, at least how they propose, would be pneumatic tubes for delivering packages. I have to think that such a system would be more efficient and cheap at some point than delivery by freight.
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#4Interesting, but almost impossible to read because the scanner resolution is too low.
The full res image: http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/...
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#5The one plausible idea that has not been introduced, at least how they propose, would be pneumatic tubes for delivering packages. I have to think that such a system would be more efficient and cheap at some point than delivery by freight.
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#6The one plausible idea that has not been introduced, at least how they propose, would be pneumatic tubes for delivering packages. I have to think that such a system would be more efficient and cheap at some point than delivery by freight.
That, and ‘peas as large as beets’. I’d like to see that.
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#7Remarkable how much of that has come true now ... and how unthinkable most of it was then.
Even those predictions which haven't happened are more by choice than by ability.
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#8The one plausible idea that has not been introduced, at least how they propose, would be pneumatic tubes for delivering packages. I have to think that such a system would be more efficient and cheap at some point than delivery by freight.
Sort of related is this plan to use quadrotors for small item delivery in remote areas. It could work well in developed areas too, I think.
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#9Whenever I read these types of speculative predictions from the past, I always get the urge to chuckle at the things they inevitably missed, or the sillier predictions - but tempered by the ways we have failed to live up to their dreams.
(As an aside: 'strawberries as large as apples' - but how would they taste?)
Re: "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900
#10Interestingly enough, the only big thing they really missed was the rise of the personal computer and the Internet.