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In my history class, I've learned about Caveman, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Roman, Renaissance, Industrial Revolutionary, WWI, WWII, etc. I was just wondering, about a hundreds or thousands of years from now. What do you think our kids will learn about? Petroleum? Internet? Etc?
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Great question. Very thoughtful.
This era will be known as the "computer revolution."
It has changed everything in world society just as the industrial revolution did in the 1800's.
It will be known as the communication era - the time when world cultures began to merge through common communication via the internet as you have already surmised.
It will be known as a time when the world moved towards a common language - or perhaps focused down to three or four languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish. [The French will always speak French, but they will know a second language as well.]
Thousands of years from now there will be one common world language, but for this century the history will show that several languages emerged from the hundreds of world languages formerly spoken and written.
This will also be known as a time of growing global consciousness regarding the environment - else we will not be around a thousand years from now to write histories.
It will be known as the century of planned population control - or again, the future will be bleak.
A hundred years from now the War in Iraq will seem a small thing - a limited skirmish hardly worth a footnote. The loss of US troops over five years does not amount to a single large battle of the American Civil War. Although the loss of each individual serviceman or woman in Iraq over the recent five years matters a great deal to us now, in the USA we lose ten times more people every year to car accidents. When historians look back, Iraq will seem a small incident.
This will also be the century that people switched form gasoline powered vehicles to electric modes of transport or possibly hydrogen powered vehicles. The Middle East only started pumping out oil a little over 100 years ago. In the next 100 years, that resource will be gone.
Food will always be an essential, the USA will be crucial for world supply.
One other thought - chemotherapy as we use it now for malignant diseases - will be considered medieval and as barbaric as bloodletting looking back 100 years from now.
Older people will still die with cancer, but people must die of something to make room for younger generations. Cancer treatments - for the many varieties of cancer - will be more specifically targeted at the cancerous cells. Cancers will be detected earlier and, hopefully, many types of cancer will be prevented. Lung cancers would decline by 80 to 90% in the next 20 years if everyone would stop smoking right now.
100 years ago, cancer was #8 on the top ten killer list compared to #2 now. Relatively few people worldwide smoked a pack of cigarettes a day in 1908.
100 years from now, cancer will still be #2 following old age related cardiovascular disease, but the relative numbers of cancer deaths will be much lower - - IF we work on the global environment and health habits such as smoking.
In the year 2108 we will look back and say the 1990's were the peak years for lung cancer deaths related to the peculiar old habit of smoking a drug known then as tobacco. The kids will be revolted by the the idea that people actually sucked addicting, carcinogenic smoke from burning vegetation into their own lungs. There will be nothing "cool" about smoking.
Great question. Very thoughtful.
This era will be known as the "computer revolution."
It has changed everything in world society just as the industrial revolution did in the 1800's.
It will be known as the communication era - the time when world cultures began to merge through common communication via the internet as you have already surmised.
It will be known as a time when the world moved towards a common language - or perhaps focused down to three or four languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish. [The French will always speak French, but they will know a second language as well.]
Thousands of years from now there will be one common world language, but for this century the history will show that several languages emerged from the hundreds of world languages formerly spoken and written.
This will also be known as a time of growing global consciousness regarding the environment - else we will not be around a thousand years from now to write histories.
It will be known as the century of planned population control - or again, the future will be bleak.
A hundred years from now the War in Iraq will seem a small thing - a limited skirmish hardly worth a footnote. The loss of US troops over five years does not amount to a single large battle of the American Civil War. Although the loss of each individual serviceman or woman in Iraq over the recent five years matters a great deal to us now, in the USA we lose ten times more people every year to car accidents. When historians look back, Iraq will seem a small incident.
This will also be the century that people switched form gasoline powered vehicles to electric modes of transport or possibly hydrogen powered vehicles. The Middle East only started pumping out oil a little over 100 years ago. In the next 100 years, that resource will be gone.
Food will always be an essential, the USA will be crucial for world supply.
One other thought - chemotherapy as we use it now for malignant diseases - will be considered medieval and as barbaric as bloodletting looking back 100 years from now.
Older people will still die with cancer, but people must die of something to make room for younger generations. Cancer treatments - for the many varieties of cancer - will be more specifically targeted at the cancerous cells. Cancers will be detected earlier and, hopefully, many types of cancer will be prevented. Lung cancers would decline by 80 to 90% in the next 20 years if everyone would stop smoking right now.
100 years ago, cancer was #8 on the top ten killer list compared to #2 now. Relatively few people worldwide smoked a pack of cigarettes a day in 1908.
100 years from now, cancer will still be #2 following old age related cardiovascular disease, but the relative numbers of cancer deaths will be much lower - - IF we work on the global environment and health habits such as smoking.
In the year 2108 we will look back and say the 1990's were the peak years for lung cancer deaths related to the peculiar old habit of smoking a drug known then as tobacco. The kids will be revolted by the the idea that people actually sucked addicting, carcinogenic smoke from burning vegetation into their own lungs. There will be nothing "cool" about smoking.
What were houses like in the 1950's in the USA?
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Did they have electricity and indoor plumbing?
What were the rooms like?
Was the house kept tidy?
What kind of cleaning equipment was used?
Did they have vacuum cleaners, bleach and air freshener?
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The houses in the 1950's had plumbing, vacuum cleaners, bleach, air fresheners, automatic washers and dryers and frost less refrigerators. Black and white TVs were in a lot of homes. Window air conditioners were used by a lot of people. The people that did not have ACs lived in houses with big windows and front and back doors that lined up with each other. The opened doors and windows pulled air through the houses. Porches and shade trees were important to keep houses shady and cooler. Box fans were put in windows to pull air inside. Attic fans were used to move air around in the houses.
Houses were different sizes and so were the rooms. Like today. The average amount of kids was four. Three bed rooms was needed. Bunk beds were common. In small towns windows and doors could be left unlocked. Not today. Things can disappear. Car keys could be left in the car. No one would steal them.
Some people had wall to wall rugs, some had carpet, some had linoleum and tile and varnished floors. The non carpet flooring was sweep, mopped and waxed. Wax buffers were used to shine the wax on the floors. Houses were tidy. When the floors were shiny, they looked great. A lot of women stayed at home and took care of the kids and the homes. Homes were kept clean. The rich hired maids. Women had time to have bridge games and other card games.
Skirts and dresses came down way below the knees. Clothes were made from cotton. Clothes were starched in cooked starch then sprinkled with water to make them damp and then ironed. They looked very neat. They were ironed with electric irons. Nylon stockings with seams down the back of the legs were wore. It was very important to keep the seams straight. In the very early 50's men and women wore hats with their suits. Kids wore real leather penny loafers to school that were polished and shiny and wore white bobby socks that were bleached. Men wore a lot of white shirts that were bleached, starched and ironed. And white blouses were popular. They were bleached, starched and ironed. Guys wore short hair. Jeans were starched and ironed. Girls wore different lengths of hair. The hair was rolled with bobby pins to make it curly. And there were electric hair dryers. It was very important to have white things white and clothes ironed and to look very neat.
Olsmobiles cars had 3 or 4 holes on each side of the motor. Each hole stood for a thousand dollars. Cars did not have AC's. Windows were put down and vents under the dash boards could be opened for air to blow in. Small windows by the large windows that were rolled down could be turned toward the face so the air could blow on you. So head scarfs and combs were nessasary to go somewhere.
White cotton sheets were common and they were bleached. They could be put in a dryer or hung on a clothes line to make them really smell fresh. So, bleach was very important then. The white sinks and bath tubs were bleached.
The houses in the 1950's had plumbing, vacuum cleaners, bleach, air fresheners, automatic washers and dryers and frost less refrigerators. Black and white TVs were in a lot of homes. Window air conditioners were used by a lot of people. The people that did not have ACs lived in houses with big windows and front and back doors that lined up with each other. The opened doors and windows pulled air through the houses. Porches and shade trees were important to keep houses shady and cooler. Box fans were put in windows to pull air inside. Attic fans were used to move air around in the houses.
Houses were different sizes and so were the rooms. Like today. The average amount of kids was four. Three bed rooms was needed. Bunk beds were common. In small towns windows and doors could be left unlocked. Not today. Things can disappear. Car keys could be left in the car. No one would steal them.
Some people had wall to wall rugs, some had carpet, some had linoleum and tile and varnished floors. The non carpet flooring was sweep, mopped and waxed. Wax buffers were used to shine the wax on the floors. Houses were tidy. When the floors were shiny, they looked great. A lot of women stayed at home and took care of the kids and the homes. Homes were kept clean. The rich hired maids. Women had time to have bridge games and other card games.
Skirts and dresses came down way below the knees. Clothes were made from cotton. Clothes were starched in cooked starch then sprinkled with water to make them damp and then ironed. They looked very neat. They were ironed with electric irons. Nylon stockings with seams down the back of the legs were wore. It was very important to keep the seams straight. In the very early 50's men and women wore hats with their suits. Kids wore real leather penny loafers to school that were polished and shiny and wore white bobby socks that were bleached. Men wore a lot of white shirts that were bleached, starched and ironed. And white blouses were popular. They were bleached, starched and ironed. Guys wore short hair. Jeans were starched and ironed. Girls wore different lengths of hair. The hair was rolled with bobby pins to make it curly. And there were electric hair dryers. It was very important to have white things white and clothes ironed and to look very neat.
Olsmobiles cars had 3 or 4 holes on each side of the motor. Each hole stood for a thousand dollars. Cars did not have AC's. Windows were put down and vents under the dash boards could be opened for air to blow in. Small windows by the large windows that were rolled down could be turned toward the face so the air could blow on you. So head scarfs and combs were nessasary to go somewhere.
White cotton sheets were common and they were bleached. They could be put in a dryer or hung on a clothes line to make them really smell fresh. So, bleach was very important then. The white sinks and bath tubs were bleached.
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