Hello!
How are you? Today let's look at some ideas about the future (未来).
Look at this short video. It's the opening and closing credits to an animated cartoon from the early 1960s that was popular in the U.S. It was called The Jetsons and it was about an American family living in the future. What sorts of things do you notice in the video?
Look at this short video. It's the opening and closing credits to an animated cartoon from the early 1960s that was popular in the U.S. It was called The Jetsons and it was about an American family living in the future. What sorts of things do you notice in the video?
What do you think of that?
Now look at the picture above. It comes from a magazine in the U.S. called Popular Science. It has been published for a long time, and this picture is from 1947.
Now look at the picture above. It comes from a magazine in the U.S. called Popular Science. It has been published for a long time, and this picture is from 1947.
In one of their magazines from 1947, Popular Science had a report about the future. It imagined many things about it. How many of these things have become real?
Every culture has its own ideas about what the future looks like. The Jetsons video clip plus the picture at the top are very some American ideas, especially after World War II, about what the future would look like. Would any of these ideas be the same as some Japanese ideas at that time about the future?
Activity
Let's look at these other pictures from the 1947 Popular Science article. What do you think they imagined in these pictures?
例えば：In the picture at the top, maybe they thought all our electricity (電気) would come from nuclear power plants (原子力発電所) in the future.
1. First - let's try to imagine what they thought in these pictures!
2. Next - let's see where these pictures came from with a report about them. Go to the Popular Science website here to find out!
Have fun! See you next time!
Images: Screenshots of illustrations uploaded to Popular Science website.
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Video uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the animation within. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for educational purposes only.
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