This is Floyd Wynne with THE VIEW FROM HERE

This is Floyd Wynne with THE VIEW FROM HERE.

Let’s look into the future…..way into the future.

While politicians debate the Iraq war and our young people fight the enemy in Iraq…..let’s look to the future.

A few days ago I was reviewing some of my older Views from here, and one dated April 13, 1992 caught my attention. Here’s what I wrote those 15 years ago.

Have you ever wondered what the world and the United States might be like one hundred years from now?

Well...let’s first take a look back. Locally...one hundred years ago in 1892 the Linkville Post Office became Klamath Falls post office on April l of that year. It would be February 6th before the name of the town changed from Linkville to Klamath Falls.

Grover Cleveland was elected President. It was his second term. He had been out of office four years before securing that second term. That year of 1892 inventors came up with ideas for both gas and electric powered automobiles, both experimental. Motion pictures had not yet been invented. Edison’s kaleidoscope was still in the experimental stage.

There were no such things as airplanes..they were yet ll years away. The first flight didn’t take place until 1903, and the first trans-continental auto trip was also about 11 years away and would take over 70 days to travel from New York to San Francisco.

So...life depended largely on the speed of the horse and the steam of the iron horse.

Now...one hundred years later...we have airplanes that can cross the nation in a few hours...we have sent men to the moon, have sent explorer rockets to most of the planets in our solar system….have instantaneous communication between all areas of the globe...have television that spans the world and interstate highways for national travel.

We’ve come a long way in the last hundred years. Now...where will this world be in a hundred years from now.

If I had to hazard a guess….this would be it.

First we will have high speed magnetic levitation trains that span the continent at speeds up to 200 and 300 miles per hour. This will be the main method of transportation for the masses.

We will have small electric cars...or perhaps even powered by hydrogen capsules for the main transportation in the cities.

We will have and almost already do have telephones that are really television equipped. Anyone will be able to communicate from anywhere.

Many of the current diseases will be eradicated….some by medical means...perhaps others by some type of selective breeding. The time may come by a hundred years from now when the world’s population will be radically regimented. Those with diseases or defective genes will not be permitted to reproduce or there will be a means of transplanting genes to correct these defects.

That’s a bit frightening but the burgeoning world population will have to be regulated somehow.

A worldwide network of food distribution and storage will largely alleviate most of the world’s hungry population.

A fully authorized international court will settle difficult international conflicts.

Man will visit planets that are habitable and colonies will be established on the moon….perhaps on Mars.

Those were some of the predictions in a view from 1992.

Of course….most of us won’t be around to see how the world looks a hundred years from now….but that’s the way we see it.

This is Floyd Wynne and that’s THE VIEW FROM HERE.

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This is Floyd Wynne with THE VIEW FROM HERE.

Let’s look into the future…..way into the future.
While politicians debate the Iraq war and our young people fight the enemy in Iraq…..let’s look to the future.
A few days ago I was reviewing some of my older Views from here, and one dated April 13, 1992 caught my attention. Here’s what I wrote those 15 years ago.
Have you ever wondered what the world and the United States might be like one hundred years from now?
Well...let’s first take a look back. Locally...one hundred years ago in 1892 the Linkville Post Office became Klamath Falls post office on April l of that year. It would be February 6th before the name of the town changed from Linkville to Klamath Falls.
Grover Cleveland was elected President. It was his second term. He had been out of office four years before securing that second term. That year of 1892 inventors came up with ideas for both gas and electric powered automobiles, both experimental. Motion pictures had not yet been invented. Edison’s kaleidoscope was still in the experimental stage.
There were no such things as airplanes..they were yet ll years away. The first flight didn’t take place until 1903, and the first trans-continental auto trip was also about 11 years away and would take over 70 days to travel from New York to San Francisco.
So...life depended largely on the speed of the horse and the steam of the iron horse.
Now...one hundred years later...we have airplanes that can cross the nation in a few hours...we have sent men to the moon, have sent explorer rockets to most of the planets in our solar system….have instantaneous communication between all areas of the globe...have television that spans the world and interstate highways for national travel.
We’ve come a long way in the last hundred years. Now...where will this world be in a hundred years from now.
If I had to hazard a guess….this would be it.
First we will have high speed magnetic levitation trains that span the continent at speeds up to 200 and 300 miles per hour. This will be the main method of transportation for the masses.
We will have small electric cars...or perhaps even powered by hydrogen capsules for the main transportation in the cities.
We will have and almost already do have telephones that are really television equipped. Anyone will be able to communicate from anywhere.
Many of the current diseases will be eradicated….some by medical means...perhaps others by some type of selective breeding. The time may come by a hundred years from now when the world’s population will be radically regimented. Those with diseases or defective genes will not be permitted to reproduce or there will be a means of transplanting genes to correct these defects.
That’s a bit frightening but the burgeoning world population will have to be regulated somehow.
A worldwide network of food distribution and storage will largely alleviate most of the world’s hungry population.
A fully authorized international court will settle difficult international conflicts.
Man will visit planets that are habitable and colonies will be established on the moon….perhaps on Mars.
Those were some of the predictions in a view from 1992.
Of course….most of us won’t be around to see how the world looks a hundred years from now….but that’s the way we see it.
This is Floyd Wynne and that’s THE VIEW FROM HERE.