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Anno 2070 (Illustrated)
Anno 2070 (Illustrated)
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Anno 2070: A Look Into the Future
Author's Note:
When comparing the present state of society in that of earlier centuries, than rice as of itself the question: how will this state in subsequent centuries?
Will this progress, which especially in our time has been so great and in so many directions has revealed persist? And, if so,-because decline is not conceivable, since the printing every footstep of the human spirit has saved blotting,-where will that steady progress our descendants than lead? What will become of those innumerable germs, which scatters the present generation, but which come posterity will reap the ripe fruit?
It was such and many other there voortvloeijende questions, which also kept me busy when I sat on one afternoon in mines easily services armchair, my thoughts hair sex gave vent to follow, so that it soon unbridled wandered amid [ 2 ] of the ghosts of people, have for long lived. I thought of our Musschenbroek , our Gravesandestraat , our Huygens , our Stevin , how they wonder would, when they lived again and the amazing gewrochten of present-day mechanics beheld, to eenen Newton , eenen Galilei and so many others, that the founders were the building, which they now scarcely recognize themselves would. I thought of steam engines and electric telegraphs, to track trains and steamboats, to mountains through tunnels pierced, to tube and suspension bridges, to photographie and gas lighting, the amazing progress of chemistry, to binoculars and microscopes, to diving equipment and air navigation, and to one hundred more subjects, which mines in motley confusion spirit passed by, however, it all consistent, they testified loud of the great difference between the present and the past. And then, as if that difference to highlight, sharpen my thoughts wandered further into the past, and my imagination rose the ghost of Roger Bacon , who lived in the thirteenth century and was a man who all his contemporaries in knowledge of nature and clarity of judgment far exceeded, but the common lot of them underwent, which, excelled in those centuries of darkness, by lighting up their surroundings. He was accused of witchcraft and thrown into prison, where he spent ten years according to some fainted and died. Some of the expressions preserved for us in his writings, which he before six centuries, [ 3 ] as predicted by eenen visionary look, what first one in our time has become reality, acted for my reminder, if:
»There are viewers made, that the most distant objects do seem near so that we will be able to read and see all kinds of small objects and the stars do appear where we want." The smallest letters up into a disbelief look away
"There can be no shipping tools to sailors, so that the largest ships are controlled by a man and move at a greater speed than if they were full of sailors."
»There are cars made that move without one animal with considerable force."
»Yet infinitely many such tools can be manufactured as bridges without pillars or Eenigen support others." 1
Author's Note (German):
Wanneer men den tegenwoordigen toestand der maatschappij vergelijkt bij dien van vroegere eeuwen, dan rijst als van zelve de vraag op: hoe zal die toestand in volgende eeuwen zijn?
Zal die vooruitgang, welke vooral in onzen tijd zoo groot is geweest en zich in zoo velerlei richtingen heeft geopenbaard, blijven aanhouden? En, zoo ja,—want teruggang is niet meer denkbaar, sedert de drukkunst elken voetstap van den menschelijken geest voor uitwisschen heeft behoed,—waarheen zal die gestadige vooruitgang onze nakomelingen dan leiden? Wat zal er worden van die tallooze kiemen, die het tegenwoordige geslacht uitstrooit, maar waarvan eerst het nageslacht de rijpe vruchten zal oogsten?
Het waren dergelijke en vele andere daaruit voortvloeijende vragen, die ook mij bezig hielden, toen ik op een achtermiddag in mijnen gemakkelijksten leuningstoel gezeten, mijne gedachten haren vrijen loop liet volgen, zoodat deze weldra teugelloos.
Author's Note:
When comparing the present state of society in that of earlier centuries, than rice as of itself the question: how will this state in subsequent centuries?
Will this progress, which especially in our time has been so great and in so many directions has revealed persist? And, if so,-because decline is not conceivable, since the printing every footstep of the human spirit has saved blotting,-where will that steady progress our descendants than lead? What will become of those innumerable germs, which scatters the present generation, but which come posterity will reap the ripe fruit?
It was such and many other there voortvloeijende questions, which also kept me busy when I sat on one afternoon in mines easily services armchair, my thoughts hair sex gave vent to follow, so that it soon unbridled wandered amid [ 2 ] of the ghosts of people, have for long lived. I thought of our Musschenbroek , our Gravesandestraat , our Huygens , our Stevin , how they wonder would, when they lived again and the amazing gewrochten of present-day mechanics beheld, to eenen Newton , eenen Galilei and so many others, that the founders were the building, which they now scarcely recognize themselves would. I thought of steam engines and electric telegraphs, to track trains and steamboats, to mountains through tunnels pierced, to tube and suspension bridges, to photographie and gas lighting, the amazing progress of chemistry, to binoculars and microscopes, to diving equipment and air navigation, and to one hundred more subjects, which mines in motley confusion spirit passed by, however, it all consistent, they testified loud of the great difference between the present and the past. And then, as if that difference to highlight, sharpen my thoughts wandered further into the past, and my imagination rose the ghost of Roger Bacon , who lived in the thirteenth century and was a man who all his contemporaries in knowledge of nature and clarity of judgment far exceeded, but the common lot of them underwent, which, excelled in those centuries of darkness, by lighting up their surroundings. He was accused of witchcraft and thrown into prison, where he spent ten years according to some fainted and died. Some of the expressions preserved for us in his writings, which he before six centuries, [ 3 ] as predicted by eenen visionary look, what first one in our time has become reality, acted for my reminder, if:
»There are viewers made, that the most distant objects do seem near so that we will be able to read and see all kinds of small objects and the stars do appear where we want." The smallest letters up into a disbelief look away
"There can be no shipping tools to sailors, so that the largest ships are controlled by a man and move at a greater speed than if they were full of sailors."
»There are cars made that move without one animal with considerable force."
»Yet infinitely many such tools can be manufactured as bridges without pillars or Eenigen support others." 1
Author's Note (German):
Wanneer men den tegenwoordigen toestand der maatschappij vergelijkt bij dien van vroegere eeuwen, dan rijst als van zelve de vraag op: hoe zal die toestand in volgende eeuwen zijn?
Zal die vooruitgang, welke vooral in onzen tijd zoo groot is geweest en zich in zoo velerlei richtingen heeft geopenbaard, blijven aanhouden? En, zoo ja,—want teruggang is niet meer denkbaar, sedert de drukkunst elken voetstap van den menschelijken geest voor uitwisschen heeft behoed,—waarheen zal die gestadige vooruitgang onze nakomelingen dan leiden? Wat zal er worden van die tallooze kiemen, die het tegenwoordige geslacht uitstrooit, maar waarvan eerst het nageslacht de rijpe vruchten zal oogsten?
Het waren dergelijke en vele andere daaruit voortvloeijende vragen, die ook mij bezig hielden, toen ik op een achtermiddag in mijnen gemakkelijksten leuningstoel gezeten, mijne gedachten haren vrijen loop liet volgen, zoodat deze weldra teugelloos.
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