Predictions for the Future from 1900
I found this wonderful vignette online and was so tempted to work it into Sunday’s sermon since it is about looking down the road toward the future.
Sometimes you just have to let the good ones go, because—alas—they don’t really move the point of the message forward. Enjoy this one and take note of which predictions have come to pass and which have not.
In the year 1900, a German chocolate company released 12 postcards predicting what life would be like 100 years in the future. So how close were they to predicting our life today? Well, you decide based on these descriptions of the postcards from 1900:
· Personal airships (a picture of couples flying around in their personal hot air balloons).
· Watching a live drama performance while not in the theater. (You mean, kind of like television?)
· An X-ray machine for police officers. (To detect crimes in progress within buildings).
· A roofed city. (Like a football stadium under a dome).
· Underwater ships for tourists. (Like taking a Carnival or Norwegian cruise vacation in a submarine.)
· Easy excursions to the North Pole. (Hey, honey, let’s spend the weekend at the North Pole.)
· A machine for creating good weather.
That good weather machine sure would come in handy here in Indiana, though our weather lately has been so ideal, I will withhold my usual complaints.
Have a blessed week,
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