The Wonderful Future That Never Was

I would like to focus on the video telephones and the ultrasound that was predicted in the 1900s. The video telephone consist of you having a television there with you and  you would have to press a button to go to the telephone and when you connect with the person you will see the person. Now in days we have Skype which is something we do easily and we don't actually need a television, we could use a cell phone! Back then I'm sure they were fascinated with just using there television with their technology.  The ultrasound machine that was used back then is anything but small. Its a huge machine that you must sit under and water is placed over you in a plastic bag for the "sonic beam." It basically just showed the conditions of the organs in your body and would make sure you didn't need surgery. Ultrasound in today's world lets you see a lot of problems in the body and seeing a unborn baby.

The Future

While watching the video "All's Fair at the Fair" I noticed how at the beginning there was just a couple riding on a buggy and the horse pulling them while cars are just passing them at high speeds. When I say that I thought back to the introduction of The "Wonderful Future That Never Was" when Thomas Jefferson said going fifteen miles per hour by engine was dangerous and life threatening. I thought the slowest that I really can think of speed limit wise is twenty-five so Thomas Jefferson would have thought we were just putting everyone life in danger. You also saw how there was robots doing everything for you, that includes doing you hair, shaving, making you look younger, play the piano, teaching you how to dance, and a lot more! At the end they showed how the man just paid a coin to get a car and it made it seem like they were going so fast in the car. Just them going to to fair I guess it made them futuristic in a way. They are fascinated by all the things they have seen. Half the stuff they seen hasn't even been created in today's worlds.

The broadcast was completely fake but people didn't know what to think because Orson Welles had  respected scientist and astronomers on the radio with him. All they knew was what they were hearing on the radio, no one had any means of communication so they didn't know if it was fake.They spoke about how there was as invasion of martians and heats rays happening.