1000 YEARS HENCE.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16623, 20 October 1925, Page 6

1000 YEARS HENCE.

WOMEN’S CLOTHES. THE SAME AS MEN'S. Tlit* celebrated young Professor A. M. Low attempts in his book, “The Future.'.’ 'to draw a picture of the world as it will be a thousand years hence. He predicts that women will have abandoned skirts in favour of the more convenient trousers worn by men. Also women’s brains will be in every way as well developed as men’s. In appearance between them, as, with the taking to the trouser, women will no longer wear high heels. Their hair will be cut as short as man’s. The average man of the future will rise at 9.30 a.m. at the call of an alarm clock worked by wireless.

While he is having breakfast a loudspeaker will keep him informed of tho day’s happenings, and at the same time another apparatus, known as a television, will show him, on a screen moving pictures of interesting things happening at the moment. The television apparatus, which will be worked by wireless, will almost do away with the vast crowds that to-day go to such events as the Derby, In send ,one will sit in comfort at home and watch the boat race, or the State Final at the actual time it is taking place. By this means popular events the whole world over will bo brought within view at home. In the wonderful future, photographs will be “telephoned’’ from all parts of the world and be published quite as quickly as news is at the present time. With wireless in all its new forms, one will be able to write at a distance. That is, your signature may be repeated at the same time and exactly as you are writing it. many hundreds of miles away. In fact, Professor Low prophesies the time when a man will transmit his signature by wireless to a cheque at tlie bank, while the cashier watches the operation by television. City streets of the future will he places of comfort in themselves. They will be roofed-in with glass, 'thus pre- , venting fogs, wind, or rain.

Loads will be wider and of better quality, while road-repairing, which today is such a. serious cause of traffic congestion, will be conducted on the block system, which will nllqw a complete block of tlie road tor he taken up and relaid in a single night. However, there will not be much walking in this world of the future. The principal thoroughfares will have progressive moving sidewalks, That is to say, pedestrians will step on to one travelling at three miles an hour, then oji to ode travelling at six, and so on, until rt speed of about twenty miles an hour is attained. When hearing their destination they will'step from one path to another, gradually reducing speed without difficulty. The man of the future will certainly have greater intellectual strength and reasoning powers, hut at the same time they will be far weaker creatures than to-day, relying on many artificial aids for existence. With this change there will come also a change in man’s amusements. Instead of games of strength, they will be intelligent and educational games. The introduction of innumerable scientific labour saving devices will do away with monotonous toil, hut will not in any way promote unemployment, for large numbers of skilled workers will be needed to produce and operate these machines. All workers will be skilled, for tlie non-skilled work will be entirely per- ! formed by mechanical apparatus. The author foretells that when this age arrives we may have established wireless communication with beings on other planets. Even at the present day, lie i says, were there a wireless station on tlie moon we should, he able to get into communication. —A.R.W.. in “Pearson’s Weekly.”