The End Times :P
Ask a historian in a few thousand years.
The scheme you listed is biased towards an interpretation of history relying on the contemporary as a fixed point; the period we can the Stone age lasted several thousands years. The industrial age is a period of just over 100 years. Big scale difference. Frankly, I suspect historians in the future may quit using the subjective classification scheme altogether, or the period following the middle ages into our future (so the Enlightenment onward) will all get lumped together.
Look, most of what I say could turn out to be untrue, but I think it's natural to predict where technology will go.
Look, most of what I say could turn out to be untrue, but I think it's natural to predict where technology will go.
And it will provide barrels of laughs for people 100 years from now. (http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm) :p
Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.
Fleets of air-ships, hiding themselves with dense, smoky mists, thrown off by themselves as they move, will float over cities, fortifications, camps or fleets. They will surprise foes below by hurling upon them deadly thunderbolts. These aerial war-ships will necessitate bomb-proof forts, protected by great steel plates over their tops as well as at their sides.
scatter technique. if you make enough informed predictions about the future, some of them will be right.
What will the next age be?
scatter technique. if you make enough informed predictions about the future, some of them will be right.
Yeah but they got more right than wrong. Some were spot on even. Others were very close to the overall end effect if not the method by which it would be achieved. For instance they never realised that music would be recorded rather than telephoned in live but they were close enough in terms of the effect.
There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America and its possessions by the lapse of another century. Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal. Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking more territory to the south of us, will cause many of the South and Central American republics to be voted into the Union by their own people.”
Man I want those things to exist. So bad.Have you watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?
Have you watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?
Yep, and the anime series Last Exile to boot. That sort of stuff comes up a lot.Man I want those things to exist. So bad.Have you watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?
its not like the us military hasn't done a ****ton of experiments on aircraft nuclear reactors. of course to manage an airborne carrier youd need a craft about 4 times bigger than a c5 galaxy. and a means for aircraft recovery. the problem really wouldnt be in the size of the aircraft but rather figuring out how to land plane that is experiencing a ****ton of wake turbulence. perhaps some kind of annular bay that can ensure a tunnel of smooth airflow behind an aircraft that planes could make a safe approach through. i figure once in the bay wind deflectors could be jacked up so that the planes may be moved to a hanger deck. launching would just involve locking the landing gear in a restraint of sorts, dropping the deflectors, then the pilots will set their engines and control surfaces for release. would be a tricky operation but im sure its doable.
Prediction #19: Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes, and will sound as harmonious as though enjoyed from a theatre box. Automatic instruments reproducing original airs exactly will bring the best music to the families of the untalented. Great musicians gathered in one enclosure in New York will, by manipulating electric keys, produce at the same time music from instruments arranged in theatres or halls in San Francisco or New Orleans, for instance.
its not like the us military hasn't done a ****ton of experiments on aircraft nuclear reactors. of course to manage an airborne carrier youd need a craft about 4 times bigger than a c5 galaxy. and a means for aircraft recovery. the problem really wouldnt be in the size of the aircraft but rather figuring out how to land plane that is experiencing a ****ton of wake turbulence. perhaps some kind of annular bay that can ensure a tunnel of smooth airflow behind an aircraft that planes could make a safe approach through. i figure once in the bay wind deflectors could be jacked up so that the planes may be moved to a hanger deck. launching would just involve locking the landing gear in a restraint of sorts, dropping the deflectors, then the pilots will set their engines and control surfaces for release. would be a tricky operation but im sure its doable.
FICON and some WW2 Russian conveyer projects have proved it can be done with existing aircraft at smaller sizes, but really with inflight refueling there's no reason to do it.
Well the stone age is divided into 3 sub-ages:
The Paleolithic
The Mesolithic, and
The Neolithic
I just put them all together for the sake of argument.
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