Bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power,and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucer．Imagine a race between them!
There may be telepathy helmets that send thought waves from your brain to that
of your friend miles away．You just think a thought and your friend knows it!You can have secrets with each other that nobody else can turn it on!
There will be other surprises in the future．How would you like to have a robot
playmate?
Having robot playmates may not be so much fun as it seems．But maybe a boy with a wrench and a screwdriver can fix the robot so that it won’t be too perfect!
What about the food of the future? Scientists think that much of it will be artificialmade in factories from such surprising things as coal．1imestone。air and water．
You don’t think that ice-cream or cake or candy or even bread and potatoes made out of these things will taste very good．You may be wrong．These artificial things will be blended so skillfully be food chemists that the food of the future probably wi11 be delicious．It probably will also be healthful be-cause life will be put into it．
Scientists of the future will almost certainly find other ways to make life last longer．They probably will find cures for most diseases．Hospitals will probably have“body banks”that can give you almost any new part you need to keep on living．People of the future may live to be a lot older than 100 years．
Are you wondering whether there’11 be television in the future? There’ll almost certainly be wonderful programs. Television screens probably wi11 be large and flat，hanging on the wall or going across the four walls of a room．People on the screen will look real as if they were right in the room with you．What about highways of the future? Well, a very small child probably will be able to drive a car．Nobody will need to steer．Electric signals will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the“Driver”wants to go．And it probably will be impossible for cars to smash together。Controllers that won’t even have to be touched will make all speeding cars miss each other or will put on the brakes．Driving in a car will be as safe as being at home．
But maybe the most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control，Cities may have giant plastic domes over them to keep out snow，rain，or storms．
When you plan a picnic in a park。you won\'t have to worry about rain．It will rain only when the“ weatherman”thinks it is needed to freshen the air inside the city．All other days will be fair and warm．
The future should be a wonderful time in which to live．But the time you are living in now was also“ a wonderful future”to the people who lived 100 years ago．
2。Three Things That Will Change Your Life
Today our lives are changing faster than at any time in history．Here we report on three important changes that will have a big impact on our everyday lives in the future．
The cashless society Cash and bank-notes wi1l disappear almost completely．They will be replaced by smart cards--plastic cards with microchip processors“loaded”