Well ladies and gents young and old big and small, lets again take a look back into our past as they try to predict our future. And there are so many things to choose from thanks to the brilliant folks over at Popular Mechanics and this little work of fiction the wonderful future that never was… things that im pretty sure without this book would be forever forgotten to history and we would not have the fortune to ask one very important question….. What the hell were we thinking?!?!
From flying cars, to jet packs, extra light weight housing, cities covered by a massive dome to the skyscraper and faster automobiles one has to admit that our ancestors were definitely creative. So what goodies have I chosen to look at today im sure we are all dying to know. So class please open your text to chapter two, we will be looking at the following pages 54, 62, and 66 and yes there will be a pop quiz at the end of today lesson.
Yes im looking at two of our favorite things food and
clothing. The predictions on pg. 54 are mostly focused on clothing made from everything
including asbestos that can be cleaned by fire, aluminum that will provide
added durability, and last but not least clothing made from petroleum as we
will have so much of it available. Page 62 offers us the idea that our milk and
butter will one day be made from kerosene and …AND! Will be served in either a
pill or concentrated form. And finally pg. 66 brings an idea to combat the possible
future food shortage of the future by creating synthetic foods from coal and
fats from petroleum. 
Now when we look at these wonderfully imaginative idea’s
does anyone else sit and ask themselves if our ancestors were just a little bit
suicidal. Now im not being negative or saying that these were bad ideas but I have
a little issue with wearing and eating things that burn. I am also not saying
that they were unaware of the use for these items to produce heat and fire, but
I think the logic was a little off somewhere. But what these things do tell us
is that they were looking for ways to make our lives that much easier, it would
be fantastic not to have to wash clothing but to run it through the fire just
as it would be to not have to slave over a hot stove/oven in order to put a
meal on the table or churn butter (if anyone was still doing that).
But then again lets think about this are we not too doing
the same thing? Looking for ways to make our lives that much easier…. I mean we
still think its possible to live on other planets who’s to say that 100 years
from now we might be looked at just as crazy for this thought or the constant
push to go faster than ever before. However the one thing that we haven’t quite
gotten (that other countries seem to) is the idea to build UP instead of out. We
did have this idea once I think we called it New York but I really don’t know
what happened after that. So in short in the past there were the excitement of
possibility and now its more or less the recognition of it all… and the
betterment of man in there somewhere.
Here endeth the lesson (just because i kinda love Sean Connery)
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