The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-03-12
LIFE AS Viewed A
FEW YEARS hence
Travel Underground, Parks
Rooted And Smooth
Roads Predicted

London, March 6.--These are some
of the conditions of social life in 500
years time predicted by DIR. A. NJ.
Low, well-known London consulting
engineer, who invented motor
scooter and has invented an appara-
tus for seeing simple objects by wire /:
Delightful underground avenues.
Roofed-in city parks.
Drawing-rooms travelling 100
miles an hour on roads as smooth as
billiard ball.
"The happy people in those days.
he said, will look back upon our con-
ditions today with just such feelings
Of amused pity as we show for the
state of the savages of prehistoric
/ times.
Humanity, having continued 10
develop the "coddling process of civil
lization, which has so far had the es-
feet of making it necessary to wear
clothes, live in warm houses, and to
seek all sorts of enervating luxuries
and comforts, will have reached so
delicate a physical condition that peo-
pie will not be able to stand exposure
to the common elements of Nature.
such as wind, cold, rain, snow, ex-
cessive heat
Underground Streets Seen.
"They will tend to live under
ground. There will be underground
streets, through which all traffic will;
proceed. Roads will be absolutely
smooth and not rough-hewn and
bumpy as they are today.
when a man sets out for bust
ness he will not proceed, as he does
now, by tramway car or train; he
will pass along delightful avenues I'M
derneath the surface of the earth.
Motor cars and all motor vehi-
cles will proceed by wireless power
and not by the crude method of using
petrol.
motor cars will be fitted up like
luxuriously appointed drawing rooms,
and will be driven (by wireless) at a
rate of 100 miles an hour. Wireless
telephones will be installed, as well
as every kind of appointment making
for luxury and comfort. Many people
will own these cars.
people will live in a condition of
splendid physical isolation. Tele-
vision-that is, the ability to see your
absent friend over a distance of many
miles-and wireless telephony, which
will enable you to talk to him Cor
herr in comfort, will lead to this
condition.
Relic of Barbarism.
"There will be less desire in those
days for close physical communion.
That desire is a relic of barbarism.
"Savages will not touch telephone
for they prefer to travel to the pres
ence of the one they wish to speak
to. Many people still are not con-
tent to talk to their friend over the
telephone, merely because they like
to see and touch him.
That relic of the barbaric age will
probably disappear in the next 500
years.
There will still be the wealthy
classes, and other classes less we'll off
That will mean that there
will still be servants in the house to
do the necessary homework But
that will not interfere with the con-
dition of splendid physical isolation,
because these servants will not be in
innate associates.
"This vision is not an eXtravagant
or wild set of theories. 1t is the di-
rection in which scientific DISCOVERIES
and experiment tend. 1t is no more
and no less wild to us than our pres
ent social conditions would have APP
peared to our forefathers generations
ago.
Many scientific men have come
face to face with discoveries and in
ventions which are only separated
from actual realization by a simple
little difficulty which will certainly be
overcome in time"