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 16^th 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?