Journalist Mark Sullivan asks us
to imagine someone reading a newspaper in the year 1900:
In his newspaper of Jan 1st
1900, the American found no such words as radio, for that was yet twenty years
in coming; nor ‘movie’, for that too was mainly in the future; nor chauffeur,
for the automobile was only just emerging and had been called ‘horseless
carriage’...There was no such word as aviator...Farmers had not heard of
tractors, nor bankers of the Federal Reserve System.
Merchants had not heard of ‘chain-stores
nor self-service’; nor sea-men of oil-burning engines...Ox-teams could still be
seen on country roads...Horses or mules for trucks were practically
universal...
The blacksmith beneath the spreading chest-nut tree was a reality.
Physics of the Future - The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives - by Professor Michio Kaku
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