I agree with alto2. I don't recall (though, God knows that was over 20 years ago for me) focusing too much on WW1 in school. Actually, I don't recall even focusing hardly on Vietnam (even in high school, which, for me, was about 12 years after the end)! I remember mostly being taught about Revolutionary War, The Civil War and WW2.
As for 2110, I wonder if we'll make strides like we did in the 20th century with planes, phones, computers, into space....
I think about how people thought, even in the 70's, what the year 2000 would look like and how way off the mark they were (though Star Trek had it right with the "flip phones" and scanning diagnostics. *g*). I mean, people thought we'd have flying cars, be going deep into space and colonizing, etc.
I'd hope that, by 2110, we will no longer be using fossil fuels and will able to rely on cleaner, more efficient modes of energy. We're making in-roads into that now, but we still have a long way to go.
I wonder if we'll continue to fight wars over religious ideology or if people will "live and let live" for once. But since we've been fighting for 2000+ years over that stuff, I'm not so sure. For things like that to change, it seems that something cataclysmic has to happen to get people to wake the hell up.
I'd also like to hope that concepts of skin color and sexual preference will be something totally unknown. I also like your concept of eating pseudo meat. I'm not a vegetarian, but it would be nice to no longer grow/breed/kill animals for sustenance. In fact, interesting you'd bring that up because I was really wishing for a food "processor" in the wall in our lunch room so I wouldn't have to keep taking lunch to work or ordering out.
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:53 pm (UTC)As for 2110, I wonder if we'll make strides like we did in the 20th century with planes, phones, computers, into space....
I think about how people thought, even in the 70's, what the year 2000 would look like and how way off the mark they were (though Star Trek had it right with the "flip phones" and scanning diagnostics. *g*). I mean, people thought we'd have flying cars, be going deep into space and colonizing, etc.
I'd hope that, by 2110, we will no longer be using fossil fuels and will able to rely on cleaner, more efficient modes of energy. We're making in-roads into that now, but we still have a long way to go.
I wonder if we'll continue to fight wars over religious ideology or if people will "live and let live" for once. But since we've been fighting for 2000+ years over that stuff, I'm not so sure. For things like that to change, it seems that something cataclysmic has to happen to get people to wake the hell up.
I'd also like to hope that concepts of skin color and sexual preference will be something totally unknown. I also like your concept of eating pseudo meat. I'm not a vegetarian, but it would be nice to no longer grow/breed/kill animals for sustenance. In fact, interesting you'd bring that up because I was really wishing for a food "processor" in the wall in our lunch room so I wouldn't have to keep taking lunch to work or ordering out.