Someone sent me this thought I would pass it on;

Year 1906 This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year
is 1906. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906: The
average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14 percent
of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the
homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York
City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S.,
and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most
cities was 10 mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were
each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4
million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in
the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel
Tower! The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour. The
average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A
competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist
$2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year,
and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year. More than 95
percent of all births in the U.S. took place at HOME. Ninety
percent of all U.S. doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they
attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in
the press AND the government as "substandard." Sugar cost four
cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their
hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Canada
passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their
country for any reason. Five leading causes of death in the U.S.
were:
1.Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!! Crossword
puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet. There
was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. Two out of every 10 U.S.
adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had
graduated from high school. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were
all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back
then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives
buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in
fact, a perfect guardian of health." ( Shocking? DUH! ) Eighteen
percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time
servant or domestic help. There were about 230 reported murders in
the ENTIRE U.S.A. ! Now I forwarded this from someone else without
typing it myself, and sent it to you and others all over the United
States, possibly the world, in a matter of seconds! Try to imagine
what it may be like in another 100 years. IT STAGGERS THE MIND,
EH....!
:D

Pretty cool, but I read this exact same thing a few years ago lol.

I frequently teach school as a substitute, and often have interesting conversations with high school students. I knew my grandfather who was trained as was I to be an engineer. I have both of his college texts covering the sum knowledge of engineering (steam tables and naval architecture) when he graduated from college.

In his lifetime man went from the horse and buggy to cars. Man learned to first fly and then go to the moon. He fought, and nearly lost his life twice in "The Great War to End All Wars", but it didn't. Some of the inventions aside from the computer you mentioned were, the telephone, radio TV and movies. Getting back to the computer it was made possible by the transistor because prior to that everything was analog and powered by vacuum tubes.

I went to college and got my degree with a slide rule. Since then we have invented disposable scientific calculators for eight bucks that have more computational horse power than the computer that took men to the moon.

You ask what life will be like in one hundred years, I shudder to think. Ask any juvenile what is seven squared, or what is the sum of three, two digit numbers are, you will get a blank stare. Ask them to read a passage from any book, and they will be ready to fight you. Are your juveniles athletically fit, or are they tending towards the obese? Finally what foreign languages do they speak as they may have to go overseas to find gainful employment. We may be a nation with more material wealth than our ancestors, but it hasn't been paid for yet, and we, as a country are going deeper in debt.

I'm retired (prematurely), but I have savings to fall back upon that many others my age do not, along with a state pension that may not be an available option for today's youth. I may be a pessimist but I think the next generation that reads this expecting more may be disappointed.


Larger Dave