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I have a headache :( Have you ever stared at a screen for so long, that the words, or pictures, or text just kind of jumbles into one? I can't describe it, but it just looks like the page has thrown up or something. And even the simplest words don't make sense? I could read this back in five minutes time and none of it would make sense to me. It's the worse when you're trying to read a book, and you're five or ten pages from the end, and you know you have to finish it right now, or it's gonna bug you that you're so near the end, but you end up reading the same sentence a million times before it sinks in.
I don't even know what I'm talking about.
I found this fact website earlier on that has predictions from 1900, about what they think will happen in 100 years time. Some are so accurate, but some...really aren't, but the ones that are right are really accurate, like about space travel. But imagine if strawberries were as big as apples! Or if C, Q and X had been taken out of the alphabet.
1. There Will Be No Cars in Our Large Cities. All traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.
2. There will be air-ships, maintained as deadly war-vessels by all military nations. Some will be used by scientists making observations at great heights above the earth.
3. Photographs will be shown from any distance. If there be a battle in China, snapshots of it will be published in the newspapers an hour later, in all of Nature’s colors.
4. American audiences in their theatres will view and hear coronations of kings by cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits.
5. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes and roaches will have been near exterminated. The extermination of the horse and stable will reduce the house-fly.
6. Strawberries as Large as Apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners. One will suffice for the fruit course of each person.
7. There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because they are unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted by the newspapers.
8. A university education will be free to every man and woman. Children will study a simplified English, not copied after the Latin. Time will be saved by grouping like studies. Poor students will be given free board and free books if ambitious and unable to meet the expenses.
9. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.
10. Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today. The meal being over, the dishes used will be packed and returned to the cooking establishments where they will be washed. Such wholesale cookery will be done in electric laboratories rather than in kitchens. Having one’s own cook and purchasing one’s own food will be an extravagance.
11. Oranges will grow in Philadelphia. Land and sea will bring delicious fruits from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days
12. Few drugs will be swallowed or taken unless needed for the stomach. Drugs needed by the lungs will be applied directly to them through the skin. It will be possible for a physician to magnify and photograph any part of the body. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.
13. There will be no wild animals. Rats and mice will have been exterminated. The horse will have become extinct, unless kept for racing and hunting. Cattle and sheep will have no horns
14. The American will live fifty years instead of thirty-five. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal.
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40 hours. I'm shaking, and I feel sick, and I just want to sleep, but I don't want to. Or something. I can't. Don't want to dream. Maybe if I stay awake just a few days more, whatevers happening in my dreams will happen, and then I can sleep. I want to sleep now. None of what I just wrote is making sense anymore.
I don't even know what I'm talking about.
I found this fact website earlier on that has predictions from 1900, about what they think will happen in 100 years time. Some are so accurate, but some...really aren't, but the ones that are right are really accurate, like about space travel. But imagine if strawberries were as big as apples! Or if C, Q and X had been taken out of the alphabet.
1. There Will Be No Cars in Our Large Cities. All traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.
2. There will be air-ships, maintained as deadly war-vessels by all military nations. Some will be used by scientists making observations at great heights above the earth.
3. Photographs will be shown from any distance. If there be a battle in China, snapshots of it will be published in the newspapers an hour later, in all of Nature’s colors.
4. American audiences in their theatres will view and hear coronations of kings by cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits.
5. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes and roaches will have been near exterminated. The extermination of the horse and stable will reduce the house-fly.
6. Strawberries as Large as Apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners. One will suffice for the fruit course of each person.
7. There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because they are unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted by the newspapers.
8. A university education will be free to every man and woman. Children will study a simplified English, not copied after the Latin. Time will be saved by grouping like studies. Poor students will be given free board and free books if ambitious and unable to meet the expenses.
9. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.
10. Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today. The meal being over, the dishes used will be packed and returned to the cooking establishments where they will be washed. Such wholesale cookery will be done in electric laboratories rather than in kitchens. Having one’s own cook and purchasing one’s own food will be an extravagance.
11. Oranges will grow in Philadelphia. Land and sea will bring delicious fruits from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days
12. Few drugs will be swallowed or taken unless needed for the stomach. Drugs needed by the lungs will be applied directly to them through the skin. It will be possible for a physician to magnify and photograph any part of the body. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.
13. There will be no wild animals. Rats and mice will have been exterminated. The horse will have become extinct, unless kept for racing and hunting. Cattle and sheep will have no horns
14. The American will live fifty years instead of thirty-five. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal.
Private
40 hours. I'm shaking, and I feel sick, and I just want to sleep, but I don't want to. Or something. I can't. Don't want to dream. Maybe if I stay awake just a few days more, whatevers happening in my dreams will happen, and then I can sleep. I want to sleep now. None of what I just wrote is making sense anymore.