Life in the future（The First Period）

    after you have visited the moon,you visit the mars colony and the venus explo-ration outpost.
    let’s go back to earth.
    in the far，far future，girls—and boys,too--may be playing with dolls that look like the people of the planets visited by our space-man.
    to control or run all kinds of toys,boys and girls may learn to use special ccmput-ers--machines that answer questions and do arithmetic faster than you can think.
    bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power,and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucer.imagine a race between them!
    there may be telepathy helmets that send thought waves from your brain to that
of your friend miles away.you just think a thought and your friend knows it!you can have secrets with each other that nobody else can turn it on!
    there will be other surprises in the fu-ture.how would you like to have a robot
playmate?
    having robot playmates may not be so much fun as it seems.but maybe a boy with a wrench and a screwdriver can fix the robot so that it won’t be too perfect!
    what about the food of the future?sci-entists think that much of it will be artificial-made in factories from such surprising things as coal.1imestone。air and water.
    you don’t think that ice-cream or cake or candy or even bread and potatoes made out of these things will taste very good.you may be wrong.these artificial things will be blended so skillfully be food chemists that the food of the future probably wi11 be deli-cious.it probably will also be healthful be-cause life will be put into it.
    scientists of the future will almost cer-tainly find other ways to make life last lon-ger.they probably will find cures for most diseases.hospitals will probably have“body banks”that can give you almost any new part you need to keep on living.people of the fu-ture may live to be a lot older than 100 years.
    are you wondering whether there’11 be television in the future?’there’ll almost cer-tainly  be  wonderful programs.television screens probably wi11 be large and flat，hang-ing on the wall or going across the four walls of a room.people  on the screen will look real as if they were right in the room with you.what about highways of the future?well,a very small child probably will be able to drive a car.nobody will need to steer.electric sig-nals will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the“driver”wants to go.and it probably  will be impossible for cars to smash together。controllers that won’t even have to be touched will make all speeding cars miss each other or will put on the brakes.driving in a car will be as safe as be-ing at home.