I am reading a book "The Rockefeller Women". John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born in 1874. When he was 11, on Feb. 13, 1885 he wrote this essay. He got a couple of things wrong, didn't he?
"I think that, in a hundred years, balloons will be made so large and strong, that people will travel in them instead of in cars and steamboats; and that they will go twice as fast. Women will have a right to vote, and may be presidents. There will be no manufacture of liquors as a drink, throughout the United States, and consequently fewer jails and policemen.
Earthquakes will be frequent and destructive. The western part of the United States will be as densely populated as the eastern. Wars will be no more. Foreigners will be educated before they can vote. Indians will become civilized and intelligent. The center of the earth will be explored, also the North and South poles. Engines will be driven by electricity.
It is to be hoped and expected that the people of our country will be wiser and better and therefore happier than now."
Are we wiser and better and happier?
1 comment:
with all the technology, and intelligence that we have, i truly don't think we're wiser at all. much the opposite. we've raced for information, and don't have the wisdom to use it.
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