The Future

Predictions about the future people were making 100 years ago:

1. Digital Color photography - True
2. Rising Height of Americans - True
3. Mobile Phones - True
4. Pre-made Meals - True
5. Slowing population growth - True
6. Hothouse vegetables - True
7. Television - True
8. Tanks - True
9. Bigger Fruit - True
10. The Acela Express - True
11. No more C, X, or Q - False
12. Everyone will walk 10 miles per day - False
13. No more cars in large cities - False
14. No mosquitos or flies - False

Watkins' Predictions

Most of these are predictions and warnings

Predictions 50 years ago

1. Increase in food supply - True
2. Their is more wealth in the sea rather than the land - False
3. Birth Control Opinions - True
4. More Space Navigation - True
5. No more war - False
6. Cure for all diseases - False

These are both prediction and a wish list

Predictions

1. Police with X-rays - True
2. Flying Machines - true
3. Movable Houses - True
4. Airships - True
5. Undersea Ships - True
6. North Pole Trip - True
7. Water Walk - True
8. Ship Railway - False
9. Roofed City - False
10. Theater - True
11. Moving Sidewalks - True
12. Good Weather Machine - False

Most of these are predictions that came true, while things such as "Moving Sidewalks," and "Roofed City" are just a wish. 

19th Century Predictions

People started predicting the future having positive impacts. The have a hope that the world will become a better place

Predicting the Future:

1. Obese rates are going to increase
2. More war in the US
3. More diseases will be cured
4. We will run out of space for the population
5. College will be more expensive
6. Inserting a chip to track you
7. Cars that run off of water
8. More sink holes
9. The Upper class will decrease
10. Public School system becoming abolished
11. We won't have a need for social skills

We do not have much control over the future. I see individuals becoming less competent, the national government being smaller, groups not having control over the things that we will being to do. International Organizations will have a word in the future with our internal affairs. As of now we have control of our own destiny, but I believe in the future we won't. The future is out of our control, but individuals can always try to shape it. The world is changing, but we don't always have to.