Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

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People have always fantasized about the future, assuming what the life of their descendants will look like in fifty or a hundred years, and hoping for a better life for future generations.

Look at how the authors of Chinese children's literature imagined the future in 1960, at a time when China was far from a world superpower, and its inhabitants, after a successful war with sparrows, suffered from hunger.

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

The main character of the book called "Xiao Lingtong travels to the future" finds various technologies that were not even heard of in the 1960s. But now we know what we are talking about!

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

Look, this picture clearly shows a smartphone with which children communicate via video chat with a police officer.

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

In 1960, when this book was published, one could only dream of an electronic watch. Now, thanks to the Chinese, everyone can buy a smart watch for a dozen dollars.

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

Children are engaged in a class with a flat screen, and in front of each student there is a gadget designed, probably, for speech recognition. Today, every smartphone has such a function.

Smartphones, smart watches and robots: A 1960 Chinese children's book predicted how people will live in the future

And here are the robots that do the work for people!

Keywords: The future | China | Book | Prediction

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