Henry Adams' 1904 Prediction
Henry Adams predicted in 1904 that, "The new American --the child of incalculable coal power, electric power, and radiating energy, as well as of new forces yet undetermined--must be a sort of God compared with any former creature of nature."
His 1904 prediction continues:
"Every American who lives into the year 2000 will think in complexities unimaginable to an earlier mind and deal with a range of problems no other previous society could even conceive. "
Adams probably was speaking with tongue in cheek when he made those predictions. He was challenging the growing belief that scientific discoveries and new technologies based on these discoveries would open the door to an American Utopia.
Students of American sociology have called the 1990s an "Age of Disappointment" and a "time of diminished expectations."
Why?
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