Challenge Exercise: Take a piece of paper and write down your own version of the future. Keep it somewhere safe.
Looks forward to in 1957 (Transcribed)
1. Man on the Moon. We’ll get there... and I would guess will be there by 1967 and by 1987 inhabited 2. Man beyond the Moon... To Mars or Venus. Possibly by the time you are as old as I am now... in 25 to 30 years... at least by the year 2000 3. Practical colonization of the Polar Ice Caps 4. Control of weather conditions 5. Atomic electricity and heat in homes and factories 6. Rocket ship travel throughout the Earth 7. China will become a major power by 1990 8. Europe will become one country by 1975 9. All major diseases will be controlled by 1975 10. In the Government there will be a scientist of cabinet rank. Perhaps even a Scientist President 11. Large scale coal mining will cease by 1980 12. Education will consume a larger share of the longer life of Man and there will be some form of “Automatic Education”, As we learn more about the mind — we will find ways of using it to store facts automatically and man will be able to spend more time in creative thoughts and less time in learn- ing the knowledge which proceeded him 13. The Dawn of the utility of Cosmic radiation by 1990 14. Mental telepathy... with greater knowledge of the mind, thought communication and transmission may become an act of will
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