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OK, so it's the 21st Century: where's my hovercar? YT is a traveling exhibit developed by the Smithsonian Institution (with the National Museum of American History and the Federation of State Humanities Councils) that looks at past predictions about America's future. And it's a web site dedicated to some of those grand visions. Our unsettled present has made some of us forget the aspirations we had for the future. This project helps remind us. From This is True for 30 November 2003 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Joel Kotkin Amazon Price: $17.13 Customer Review: America doesn't need an addition 100 million people trashing up the nation to be competitive. Competitiveness is a matter of quality not quantity. The author looks at the issue of population growth mostly from the perspective of all the "open space" ...  by Joel C. Rosenberg Amazon Price: $10.19 Customer Review: Our ladies' Bible study group is using this book in our fall study - to help us understand and learn more about Bible prophesy. We are finding that it generates a lot of discussion and especially like the way Joel ties current events to prophesies in...  by Various Authors Amazon Price: $11.53 Customer Review: I expected more of Mayan predictions and history.. this book turned out to be more new age type of more philosophical book. It is ok. but I am more interested in ancient history and mysteries. The parts that compares Ancient Egyptians and Indian pred...  by Geoff Stray Amazon Price: $16.32 Customer Review: Descriptions of many ancient calendars and predictions from the world over. Includes graphs and charts that are very detailed. I tended to skip over the visual aids and sometimes the descriptions. Read the parts that interested me most and skipped...  by Paul Milo Amazon Price: $10.19 Customer Review: There are a lot of advantages to being alive today, but perhaps one of the lesser appreciated is the ability to look back at predictions for life in the year 2000 and beyond. Mankind has always had one eye on the future, and hundreds, if not thousand... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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