lungs of passengers and traumatize innocent by standers on neighboring roads speed is now seen as a positive across the board Even school has be come a high speed learning factory in which the teacher throws stacks of books into the hopper of a learning machine that hammers the writings of Horace and Euclid into the students brains in re cord time using a fl ow of electrons In spite of a few amusing misses the far sight ed accuracy with which the illustrators who cre ated these utopian pictures visualized the future is amazing Or vice versa the accuracy with which progress has fulfi lled the hopes and expectations of the people who lived one hundred years ago Who needs Google when a machine electronically funnels world knowledge into your brain The author Journalist and historian Dr Lorenz Steinke has been exploring the technological visions from the turn of the century for years The imagination and bold belief in progress prevailing in that era when fear of tomorrow was unknown and daredevil pilots made their fi rst attempts of conquering the skies in rickety contraptions holds a particular fascination for him 45 In motion

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