StoryWorks - Welcome To The Future
StoryWorks - Welcome To The Future
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WELCOME TO THE
FUTURE
BY Matthew Hutson
Full days
nutrition in
10 sips
Burger
grown in
a test
tube
Family
vacation
on Mars
Collar that
receives
wireless
commands
GARY HANNA
Teleporter
to take you
to school
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at home, instead of
Energy will be
limitless.
Robots will be
your teacher,
your house
cleaner, AND
your doctor.
environment and we
may one day run out
of these fuels. In the
future, well rely on
nuclear fusion, the
reaction that happens
sophisticated. Unfortunately,
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You will
visit CHINA
without
Leaving Home.
Traveling will be
vacation of course!
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have to be abandoned.
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able to manufacture
happen next!
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PRIMARY DOCUMENT
In this fascinating magazine article from 1900, an engineer makes some bold guesses about the future.
You might be surprised by what he got right! What can you infer about life in 1900 from his predictions?
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POEM
What is yet
to be is but
a guess ...
by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
writing contest
Predictions about the future reveal a lot about usabout our values, our worries, and our
hopes and dreams. Based on these three texts, what do our visions of the future say about
us? Support your answer with details from all three texts. Send your response to FUTURE
CONTEST. Five winners will each receive FEED by M.T. Anderson. See page 2 for details.
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