The December 27 , 1950 Robesonian ( Lumberton , NC ) ran an Associated Press article titled , “ How Experts opine We ’ll Live in 2000 A.D. ” The article cover the future of moving-picture show , commercial flight , quad change of location , medicine and women , among many other topics . Can you believe that by the year 2000 a cleaning woman may be president of the United States ? plainly not .
Some highlighted prediction of the slice appear below . A transcribed adaptation of the clause in its entirety can be see on my other blog , one-time Than Me .
– Third dimensional colouration television will be so humdrum and so simplify at the daybreak of the 21st one C that a minuscule equipment will project motion picture on the support room rampart so realistic they will seem to be animated . The way will automatically be filled with the scent of the flower garden being shown on the sieve .
– The char of the class 2000 will be an outsize Diana , anthropologists and beauty experts predict . She will be more than six feet magniloquent , break a size of it 11 shoe , have shoulder like a wrestler and muscles like a truck equipment driver . She will go in for all kind of mutant – probably will contend with men athlete in football game , baseball game , prizefighting and wrestle .
– Wireless transmission of galvanic power , long a dream of the engineer , will have fare into being . There will be no more power lines to break in storm . A simple small transmitting aerial on the cap will pick up the current for dismount a house .
– The Third World War – barring such a miracle as has never yet pass in relations between rural area so greatly at odds – will get out of Russia ’s exactly opposite attempt to unify the cosmos by military force .
– The telephone will be transformed from conducting wire to radio and will be fit with the visuality of television . Who ’s on the other end of the line will rarely be a closed book . Every footer will have his own walk phone – an apparatus by a compounding of the X - ray of light and television . Electronic appendectomies will be perform with an X - beam of light - TV television camera , projection screen and electric “ knives ” – the latter in reality being electrodes functioning without puncture the skin .
– In 2000 we shall be capable to vaporize around the world in a sidereal day . We shall be neighbors of everyone else on earth , to whom we wish to be neighbourly .
– The land ’s industrial and agricultural plant will be capable to sustain 300 million persons 50 long time from now – twice the present population . Land now unproductive will be made to yield . skill will steadily increase crop yield per Accho . Technological , industrial and economical advances will give the American hoi polloi living measure eight times as high as now .
– Public health will improve , especially the knowledge of how atmosphere behave infections , like the common cold , from person to person . Before 2000 , the breeze probably will be made as safe from disease - spreading as water and food were during the first half of this hundred .
– Space political platform , post out from earth , will end mid - century ’s “ iron mantle ” era by bringing the entire orb under never-ending surveillance .
– combining automobile - planes will have been perfect .
– People will live in houses so automatic that push button - buttons will be supersede by fingertip and even representative controller . Some hoi polloi today can push a push to close a windowpane – another to get down java in the kitchen . Tomorrow such chores will be done by the affectionateness of your fingertip , as elevator are summoned now in some of the new office buildings – or by a mere whispering in the intercom speech sound .
– Radio broadcasting will have disappeared , for no one will tune in a program that can not be view . Radio will long since have regress to a stringently communications mass medium , using gimmick now unheard of and unthought of .
– Some movie theaters of A.D. 2000 may be dome - determine , with cap and walls arching together like the sky . These surfaces would be the “ screen . ” Most action would still be in front of you , as now . But some could be overhead , some at the sides , and some even on the wall behind . A short fille steps into a street in the activity before you – and you turn around and expect behind you to see if an car is add up .
– Through the protract enjoyment of better plants and animate being , improved fertiliser , fresh growth regulators and more efficient machinery , it should be potential , leaders say , for farmers to create future crop needs on much less land than today .
– Some see us drifting toward the all - powerful state , lulled by the dulcet sound of “ security . ” Some see a need to curb our exemption lest it be used to shield those who plot against us . And some fear our freedom will be difficult to preserve if a world-wide warfare should come .
– So say your children not to be surprised if the class 2000 finds 35 or even a 20 - minute work calendar week fixed by jurisprudence .
The piece was written by the follow specialists of The Associated Press : J.M. Roberts , Jr. , extraneous thing ; Howard W. Blakeslee , skill ; Sam Dawson , political economy ; Dorothy Roe , women ; Alexander George , population ; James J. Strebig , air ; David G. Bareuther , construction ; C.E. Butterfield , television ; Gene Handsaker , movie ; Ovid A. Martin , Agriculture Department ; Ed Creagh , politics ; Norman Walker , trade union movement ; David Taylor Marke , education .
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