The world in a hundred years’ time
By Syed Yasir Ali shah (student of Saint Mary’s High
School Sukkur)
This is the age of science and modern science
has made such a wonderful evolution that man has assimilated almost magical
powers. In the last half of century we have just invented many wonderful things
that if these things were talked about before our parents and grandparents,
they would have considered it as impossible. Telephone, radio, cinema,
aeroplane, helicopter, television and many other wonderful inventions of
science make us wonder at them. If we will continue on this progress then no
doubt, many more wonderful and far-fetched things will be invented in near future.
Our airplanes will go out of fashion and new
kinds of aeroplane will take their place. And, on the roof of every house there
will be helicopter. People will be ridden on helicopter instead of motorbikes
to go somewhere, and there will be landing place for these helicopters. The
people will own new smarter and small planes for itinerant rather than owing
motor cars. Then the whole traffic will go to the air. Well, then the roads
will be safe for pedestrians. And to control the traffic in the air there will
be traffic cops trained to control the traffic in the air. Then, shall we have
traffic islands hanging in the air too? No wonder if we have. Journey to other
planets may have become a reality and we may go for a change of air perhaps to
the moon or to mars!
A
great deal of work is today done by our machines. In a century or a two, man
will have invented many more machines. Our gramophones will go out of fashions
and in future even our radio sets will become outdate. Perhaps our
television-sets will become common; so common that people will use it as an
ordinary projector. People will be carrying small and smart televisions in
their pockets and they will watch even they are having a walk in a park or
while travelling in a bus. Just pull it out of the pocket and see or hear the
programs you want to. Every one of us could carry a telephone with us like, as
we carry a wrist watch and, these telephones will be named as wrist telephones
by which we would be able to talk with our friends and relative miles away from
us even while travelling in the air. Our now-a-days clothing will then be seemed
as an old costumes used for the playbacks in 16th century. Our
clothes will be like those of iron-man and robot in which we will have an
automatic gun, just aim it and stretch your hand and the bullet will come out.
And, a jet pack will replace our school and college bags, if we will have to go
somewhere, just pull the thread from back and our problems of buying utilities
in hours will be solved and this work will be done in seconds.
Today,
we have machines named computer and laptop, in future instead of our geometry
boxes we will be carrying a small high speeded smart and pocket sized laptops
and computers, running without electricity and any battery. We have sunglasses
now, in different colors but then we will have a navigator, maps system and
g.p.s system fitted in our glasses and we will just click a button on the right
side of a sun-glass stick and every location will be appeared before our eyes.
It is
interesting to let loose one’s fancy and imagine all the fine things we would
do. The great question, however, is---shall we survive the destructions by our a-bombs
and H-bombs? Science has also invented terrible weapons which can wipe out the
whole man-kind from the surface of the earth. But, science does not allow or
teach to kill or harm someone, the best precedence about this is of the Han
dynasty. In which a Chinese alchemist created gun powder by accident and later
on he mixed potassium nitrate in it. This invention would later
be used in bombs during their military actions. And when the people started
dying that person by whom this invention was made committed suicide. It may
just only leave the wild aborigines in the world. Shall we then start the whole
cycle of progress once again?
