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In a hundred years time and there has been no nuclear war or whatever, what would you predict the world of today would be like?
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100 years ago:
Wright brothers sold their first airplane to the US Army, a little biplane that could fly for half an hour, travel a loop course, carry two people, fly at less than 60 miles per hour.
Telephones - expensive, generally found at stores and other public places, unreliable, limited "coverage" area and limited destinations, all connections made by operators (usually young women) actually plugging wires into two or more plugs to complete the connection.
No antibiotics, anti viral medicines, cancer treatments, xray machines, CAT scanners, or MRI's. Surgery still very risky, many women died in childbirth, children died of whooping cough, polio, measles, and a number of other diseases for which we now have vaccinations.
No radio, no television, no internet, no computers. Newspapers were the primary source of information about the world.
The largest military weapons were naval battleships with 11 inch in diameter guns. No nukes, no satellite guided bombs, no missiles.
Most Americans were farmers and depended upon their crops to make a living and to survive.
Women grew up to be mothers or elementary teachers but never exercised, played sports, voted, or got into politics.
Most Americans rode trains to go more than a few miles. Cars were still a rich person plaything. Horses pulling wagons were still the trucks of the day.
Ships took you across oceans.
Education was limited to 8 years or less for most people ( and almost all women).
Most clothing was made of cotton or linen.
Movies were short, black and white, silent, poor quality, and viewable only at theaters.
Cameras took only black and white pictures, film was expensive to buy
and develop.
No microwaves, no toasters, blenders, no fast foods, pop tarts, fresh cold milk, fruit in the winter (expensive in the summer), no freezers at home for meat, ice cream, or frozen vegetables. Food was frequently filled with unsafe additives or contaminated. Food-born diseases were common.
Average US lifespan expectancy at birth was 45 years. Many people lived to be 80, 90 or 100, but far fewer babies saw their first or fifth birthdays.
Okay, now think about today, where average 6 year olds carry cell phones which bounce signals off satellites, use gps locators, use computers in their classrooms, get inoculated against dozens of diseases, tetanus shots for scrapes and cuts, wear clothes made out of oil and soybeans, watch TV and take movies on cellphones, want to be astronauts, expect to live on the Moon or Mars, fly to Australia in half a day, expect to live to be 85 to 110, average about 14 years of education, will drive "safe" cars aided by computers, grow taller and stronger, aren't insulted by "you throw like a girl", use trains for decorations under christmas trees, know their cancer is going to be cured most of the time, get an MRI for falling off a swingset.
In 100 years:
Who knows?
How will we travel? Will all diseases be curable? Will WE have computers implanted in our brains at birth and be a species of cyborgs? Will our thoughts be readable by anyone? Will life only end at 200 or 250 when we've grown bored of running marathons and hang-gliding across the Pacific Ocean? Will we teleport (ala Star Trek) food and materials instead of using ships, trucks and trains? Will our energy source be portable fusion generators (such as in Back to the Future?) Will we communicate over distances by thought?
Will everything then be as magical as today would seem to someone from 1909 coming here?
If you're younger than 20, you'll see things that will seem natural to you in your future but would seem miraculous if they were put in front of you right now, just as landing men on the Moon was miraculous to my grandmother, born in 1890 before planes, cars, plastics, synthetics, direct dialing telephones, safe foods, freezers, air conditioning, chlorinated, flouridated water, and a thousand other things she lived to see.
100 years ago:
Wright brothers sold their first airplane to the US Army, a little biplane that could fly for half an hour, travel a loop course, carry two people, fly at less than 60 miles per hour.
Telephones - expensive, generally found at stores and other public places, unreliable, limited "coverage" area and limited destinations, all connections made by operators (usually young women) actually plugging wires into two or more plugs to complete the connection.
No antibiotics, anti viral medicines, cancer treatments, xray machines, CAT scanners, or MRI's. Surgery still very risky, many women died in childbirth, children died of whooping cough, polio, measles, and a number of other diseases for which we now have vaccinations.
No radio, no television, no internet, no computers. Newspapers were the primary source of information about the world.
The largest military weapons were naval battleships with 11 inch in diameter guns. No nukes, no satellite guided bombs, no missiles.
Most Americans were farmers and depended upon their crops to make a living and to survive.
Women grew up to be mothers or elementary teachers but never exercised, played sports, voted, or got into politics.
Most Americans rode trains to go more than a few miles. Cars were still a rich person plaything. Horses pulling wagons were still the trucks of the day.
Ships took you across oceans.
Education was limited to 8 years or less for most people ( and almost all women).
Most clothing was made of cotton or linen.
Movies were short, black and white, silent, poor quality, and viewable only at theaters.
Cameras took only black and white pictures, film was expensive to buy
and develop.
No microwaves, no toasters, blenders, no fast foods, pop tarts, fresh cold milk, fruit in the winter (expensive in the summer), no freezers at home for meat, ice cream, or frozen vegetables. Food was frequently filled with unsafe additives or contaminated. Food-born diseases were common.
Average US lifespan expectancy at birth was 45 years. Many people lived to be 80, 90 or 100, but far fewer babies saw their first or fifth birthdays.
Okay, now think about today, where average 6 year olds carry cell phones which bounce signals off satellites, use gps locators, use computers in their classrooms, get inoculated against dozens of diseases, tetanus shots for scrapes and cuts, wear clothes made out of oil and soybeans, watch TV and take movies on cellphones, want to be astronauts, expect to live on the Moon or Mars, fly to Australia in half a day, expect to live to be 85 to 110, average about 14 years of education, will drive "safe" cars aided by computers, grow taller and stronger, aren't insulted by "you throw like a girl", use trains for decorations under christmas trees, know their cancer is going to be cured most of the time, get an MRI for falling off a swingset.
In 100 years:
Who knows?
How will we travel? Will all diseases be curable? Will WE have computers implanted in our brains at birth and be a species of cyborgs? Will our thoughts be readable by anyone? Will life only end at 200 or 250 when we've grown bored of running marathons and hang-gliding across the Pacific Ocean? Will we teleport (ala Star Trek) food and materials instead of using ships, trucks and trains? Will our energy source be portable fusion generators (such as in Back to the Future?) Will we communicate over distances by thought?
Will everything then be as magical as today would seem to someone from 1909 coming here?
If you're younger than 20, you'll see things that will seem natural to you in your future but would seem miraculous if they were put in front of you right now, just as landing men on the Moon was miraculous to my grandmother, born in 1890 before planes, cars, plastics, synthetics, direct dialing telephones, safe foods, freezers, air conditioning, chlorinated, flouridated water, and a thousand other things she lived to see.
I'm looking for a running watch that diplays both the split time and overall time simutaneously.?
tTate
I know the Garmin has it, just looking for something more cost effective. Not interested in the GPS. My Nike and Ironman have splits and overall but not on the screen at the same time. Thank you~
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I don't know about you, but I've got an Ironman that's got splits and overall on the same screen...however, it's a women's watch, and I don't know what it's called, since it was a gift. I do know that they've got a male counterpart...just letting you know that Ironman does have one out there. Not as much help as it could be, but hope this helps a little.
I don't know about you, but I've got an Ironman that's got splits and overall on the same screen...however, it's a women's watch, and I don't know what it's called, since it was a gift. I do know that they've got a male counterpart...just letting you know that Ironman does have one out there. Not as much help as it could be, but hope this helps a little.
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