The inevitable future

In 1939 the world was at the forefront of a technological era never before seen. With newly developed cars, telegraphs, and radios people were able to travel and communicate at the fastest rate in history. The prediction of the "Radio Controlled Farm of The Future" was one that stuck out to me in The Wonderful Future That Never Was. During this time agriculture was a huge industry in the United States and, like everything else, was happening exponentially faster. I think the idea of one man controlling the entire farm and all of its machinery from a stationary position is awesome even in today’s standards. While we have giant machines that make life on the farm much easier, there is still nothing this efficient. Most farms don’t even pack, can, and ship the product from the same place as they harvest it. The downside to such an invention… It would make some of the least lazy people of today’s world extremely lazy! 

The next prediction that stood our for me was the "Periodic Checkups By Computers." Very recently I noticed an article in an online paper talking about medical implants that monitor your body and can be scanned by computers at the hospital or doctors office. To me, I can't believe such an item is neither available nor possible! It makes me slightly uneasy, as anything foreign actually inside my body seems sketchy (for lack of a better word), but at the same time the simplicity/convenience factor makes such "chips" very intriguing. The people of the early/mid 20th century had great insight to predict such technologies of the future.