UMR graduate Farouk El-Baz has been appointed to a committee that will identfy the top 20 challenges likely to face engineering in the next 100 years. With that in mind, lets look back on some of the predictions for the year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal -- in December of 1900:
-- Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today.
-- If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later.
-- Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated.
-- Automatic instruments reproducing original airs exactly will bring the best music to the families of the untalented.
-- A university education will be free to every man and woman.
Thomas Jefferson would have been happy if this last prediction would have come true.
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