Boston Globe Quotes
One hundred years from now there will be airships flying over Boston which will have central air conditioning, and baseball games played at night.
Actually both of these predictions came true in half the time estimated. This is a good illustration of how technological innovation and utilization was accelerating throughout the 20th century.
Boston Globe, Prediction of Boston in 2000, 1900
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Mother Shipton made a series of unusually accurate predictions, published throughout England, including the Great Plague of London, the Spanish Armada, & the Great Fire of London. Be wary of this particular quotation as while it may be a remarkable prediction, it also may well be a forgery.
Cayley developed the first gliders and envisioned air travel at the same time that Thomas Jefferson was President.
It is perhaps ironic that Langley had the vision of air flight while Wilber Wright, the inventor of the first airplane a few years later, saw it’s role much more limited. See: {42182}.
Ataturk quickly envisioned the importance of the airplane. He even sent is daughter to Russia to learn to fly a plane, and she became the first Turkish Military Officer to do so. This was typical of Ataturk—killing two or more reform “birds” with one stone. He not only brought the airplane into the Turkish consciousness by having his daughter fly which attracted great attention of the press and got people talking, but showed that women were capable of the most complex technological tasks. Before Ataturk, few women in Turkey ever did anything but parenting and homemaking. Ataturk gave Turkish women the vote before America adopted women’s suffrage.
The nature of war itself had changed radically as a result of technology and concepts of total war. Such a dramatic increase in the destructive potential of war then occurred with each major war since and what alarmed Eliot at the time paled to insignificance in the next century.
Two years later he flew. That is how fast and dramatic the Wright Brothers work had gone. Once they got on the right track, everything began to fall into place. Two years earlier he had been optimistic. See {613170}.
De Forest foresaw the coming digital age, microwave cooking, and even wireless electricity which in 2012 was just being developed experimentally.
He was trying to develop an airplane the decade before the Wright Brothers succeeded. However their work did not emerge out of thin air. They had read Chanute’s reports and credit him with a number of their ideas. Chanute, like the Wright Brothers and oither early air pioneers were optimists about the utility of the airplane as well as its feasibility.
This was 50 years before the invention of the airplane, and more than 100 years before space travel.
What Mises says in this quotation is true. What he does not say that by the time the automobile was developed and then the airplane, the Railroad monopoly had impeded and destroyed so many different entities that the governments had cracked down and curtailed much of the ability of the Railroads to exercise monopolist power. If the Railroads had as much power in 1920 as they did in 1870, there probably never would have been a thriving auto industry and the airlines would likely never have succeeded. Mises again exaggerates a basic point that large monopolistic companies and industries often have not been able to stave off new technology and approaches. While true in many cases, the cause is not necessarily fundamental to economics but has sometimes (as with the railroads) been caused by Government regulation and reform. A better example is that the large sail dominated shipping industry was not able to stop the coal fired steam engine ships. Indeed the shipping owners embraced the new technology. The best examples of Mises point occurred after Mises died. For example, Microsoft was not able to prevent Google from dominating many of Microsoft’s positions in the IT world.
1st Duke of Wellington. This is one of the classic errors and bad judgments of a great man. In a short time thereafter, Britain had railroads connecting all the major places in the kingdom—well ahead of all the other nations.
His father, Henry Ford, did not agree that the Airplane would be so important, but the son’s vision made Ford the largest airplane manufacturer in America.
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 26 Pulitzer Prizes, and had a weekday circulation of 92,820 during the final three months of 2019. The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston.
