rel:: [[1922-05-07]] [source1](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_crowfoot_ver01/data/sn83045774/00271744274/1922050701/0247.pdf) [source](x-devonthink-item://6DD07162-1938-4508-A873-D416D9C3E6DA) # What the World Will be Like In a Hundred Years > It is easier to bring about a revolutionary scientific discovery such as that of the X-ray than to alter in the least degree the quality of emotion that arises between a man and a maid. ## Right > I suspect that commercial flying will have become entirely commonplace. > [Passenger steamer] replaced by flying convoys, which should cover the distance between London and New York in about twelve hours [...] the problem is mainly one of artificial heating and ventilation to enable the aeronauts to survive. > [railroads] will probably have ceased to carry passengers except for suburban traffic. > Railroads may continue to handle freight, but it may be that even this will be taken from them by road traffic, because the automobile does not have to carry the enormous overhead charges of tracks. > Coal will not be exhausted, but our reserves will be seriously depeleted, and so will those of oil. > One of the world dangers a century hence will be a shortage of fuel, but it is likely that by that time a great deal of power will be obtained from tides, from the sun, probably from radium and other forms of radial energy, while it may also be that atomic energy will be harnessed. > The movies will be more attractive, as long before 2022 they will have been replaced by the kinesphone, which now exists only in the laboratory. That is the figures on the screen will not only moved, but they will have their natural colors and speak with ordinary voices. ![[Screen Shot 2022-01-24 at 7.40.03 PM.png]] ![[Screen Shot 2022-01-24 at 7.40.37 PM.png]] ## Wrong > The passenger steamer will survive on the coasts [...] > As for the horse, it will probably no longer be bred in white countries. > The people of the year 2022 will probably never see a wire outlined against the sky. ### Some right, some wrong ![[Screen Shot 2022-01-24 at 7.36.13 PM.png]] ### Hilariously wrong ![[Screen Shot 2022-01-24 at 7.36.58 PM.png]]