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Over voorspellingen over 2000 in 1900
Geschreven door Piet Blaas op 26. Jul 2007 22:35:02:
Hallo allemaal,
In 1900 verscheen in het 'Ladies Home Journal' een aantal voorspellingen voor het jaar 2000.
“These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 - a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.”Je kunt het lezen op: http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm
Enkele bijzonder citaten, die direct te maken hebben met onze gemeenschappelijke hobby:
Prediction #9: Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.
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Prediction #18: Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a “hello girl”.
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Prediction #19: Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes, and will sound as harmonious as though enjoyed from a theatre box. Automatic instruments reproducing original airs exactly will bring the best music to the families of the untalented. Great musicians gathered in one enclosure in New York will, by manipulating electric keys, produce at the same time music from instruments arranged in theatres or halls in San Francisco or New Orleans, for instance. Thus will great bands and orchestras give long-distance concerts. In great cities there will be public opera-houses whose singers and musicians are paid from funds endowed by philanthropists and by the government. The piano will be capable of changing its tone from cheerful to sad. Many devises will add to the emotional effect of music.
Ik denk dat de hedendaagse realiteit hun stoutste verwachtingen ruimschoots overtroffen zou hebben. Hoewel er nog wel wat te wensen overblijft...
Prediction #11: No Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated. Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams. The extermination of the horse and its stable will reduce the house-fly.
Tja, DDT bleek ook wel erg veel negatieve effecten te hebben...
Maar stel je eens voor hoe het er over 100 jaar uit zou zien! Zouden onze buizenradio's nog enig praktisch nut hebben? Zou radio überhaupt nog bestaan? Zou internet er nog steeds zijn?
Bij het lezen van dergelijke voorspellingen, moet ik onwillekeurig denken aan de dingen die voor ons de normaalste zaak van de wereld zijn, maar hoe zou dat over een tijdje zijn?Groeten,
Piet.
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