We often have the word vision in our language. People, companies, countries. Vision says a lot. It is what makes the present more bearable, what offers hope, it is a motive. It is a lifeline and also a prediction. And like weather forecasts and meteorologists, visions and visionaries are also fallible. Let's take a look at some bold predictions from the last century that have been or are still waiting for possible realization.
One of the correct prophecies was a jumpy one world population growth. Technology has also lived up to its expectations, positive by offering a new dimension to life, and negative by extinguishing many jobs. But they were also clearly more bold and definite predictions of those mentioned, like that one Nikola Tesla in 1909, when he announced an instrument that would enable the wearer to be heard from sea or land thousands of miles away. As we know, 2/3 of the world's population has a mobile phone today.
The man of the future will be Cyclops
No, this is not taken from the Odyssey, but from the mouth dr. of Thomas Hall Shastid, who in 1933 claimed to be the future man Polyphemus, i.e. with one eye in the middle of the face, somewhere in the position of today's nose, because as such it is supposed to perform the tasks of a modern person more easily.
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The third generation after the advent of television will be illiterate
With the advent of television in the mid-20th century, some predicted sharp decline in literacy, because television is supposed to eat away the time that people would otherwise devote to reading, to the point where we will no longer be able to read at all. Then they did in Time magazine asked why we would continue to write about it in the first place, since future generations will not be able to read it anyway and confirm that it is true. At the same time, they announced that we will be in the 21st century squinting, wearing a crest and worshiping darkness. And as far as we know, only the latter is partially true.
Every disease can be cured with a miracle pill
If the Swiss surgeon's prediction ever comes true Francois Ody from 1956, then se hospitals he writes badly. She will replace the work of surgeons and others capsule, which will enable recovery in a few hours, meaning that many medical staff would be out of work. Which wouldn't be good from an unemployment point of view, but people would suffered less due to physical pain.
The frogman will live in an underwater bunker and take care of the fields of marine vegetation
Rand Corp. In 1966, he predicted that we would have large fields of seaweed under the sea level that would be cared for by underwater farmers, frog people, which will be under water in special submerged workshops lived continuously for several months. Algae, which are rich in proteins, would be mixed into a special powder that could chemically altered at will to taste like anything, steak or whiskey. Although it is marine vegetation regularly used today as a food supplement, it is still far from replacing it in one way or another. And the farmers are still living on dry land for the time being.
A grunt pill
The same Times magazine article that served up Rand Corp.'s top vision to the world also poked its nose into marriage. They assumed that if one of the spouses was upset, the other could jump to the pharmacy, buy ”anti-anxiety” pills and secretly shook them into his partner's coffee. Although besides this bizarre idea there are many today medicines, who in one way or another want to take control or throw the reins on our mood, the best medicine remains glass of vine or temporary withdrawal from each other.
Adapted and adapted from:
time.com
