As for the cars for outside the cities, they are bigger and roomier
Would you like to know what your life will be like ten years from today? • You will work only four days a week • Drugs against tuberculosis will come into general use • One child in every ten will spend a period in a mental hospital • The world will pass through a second crisis, though not one dangerous to humanity • One marriage in every three will end in divorce • You will fly from New York to London in five hours ......
Our young people will grow taller, thanks to nourishing food and a well-planned athletic life.
But you will become prone to nervous and emotional ailments, the result of a noisy, fast, and complicated life...
These will cause many cases of asthma, allergy, ulcers, weakness of the heart, and pains of the stomach.
And it is expected that one child in every ten will spend some time in a hospital for mental diseases..
The family: The family of 1965 will be larger in number, and marriage will come earlier, so that the average marrying age will be nineteen for the girl and twenty-two for the young men, whereas today it averages 21 and 24. — And it is reckoned that the population of the United States will by then be 188 million.
Movement and travel: 81 million automobiles will travel the roads of America, where today they number no more than 59 million — and you will be able to use extracts of coal or of vegetables as fuel for your car, and this will cost you a third of what gasoline costs you today. In 1965 people will use two kinds of cars: the first for inside the cities — and this will be five feet shorter than the present Ford and Chevrolet; and the second for outside the cities — and this will be bigger, faster, and better assured of comfort than today's car.
Travel across countries will increase, so that most people will visit Europe, for instance, since five hours will be enough to carry you from New York to London, and airplanes driven by nuclear power will come into general use. — And in 1975, 200 travelers will be able to cross the distance between New York and London in three hours, at a speed of 1,200 miles an hour! Flying saucers will be used for the short distances, holding 100 passengers at a speed of 600 miles an hour.
Recreation: Your recreation will be confined within the circle of your home. You will probably possess by that day two television sets in natural colors, of which no one set will cost more than 300 dollars, paid off in installments..
And it will be within your power to buy a radio the size of a watch, worn around your wrist, which you will pur
Like a watch, you will wear the radio on your hand!