What will they teach our kids in the future?

Question

In my history class, I've learned about Caveman, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Roman, Renaissance, Industrial Revolutionary, WWI, WWII, etc. I was just wondering, about a hundreds or thousands of years from now. What do you think our kids will learn about? Petroleum? Internet? Etc?

Answer 1

depends if its US history or world history.

if US it will describe 9/11 and the war in Iraq, bin laden.

worls history will probably have that (above) too, and when bezair died and bin laden releasing another tape on isreal's 60th birthday.

and a lottttt more!

Answer 2

Iraq

Answer 3

Just like we learned about ancient Egypt up to the 1940's and so on, our children will learn about all of that up to whats going on on right now. Vietnam, Gulf War, 9/11, War with Iraq, the upcoming election, etc....

Answer 4

Great question.  Very thoughtful.

This era will be known as the "computer revolution."

It has changed everything in world society just as the industrial revolution did in the 1800's.

It will be known as the communication era - the time when world cultures began to merge through common communication via the internet as you have already surmised.

It will be known as a time when the world moved towards a common language - or perhaps focused down to three or four languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish.  [The French will always speak French, but they will know a second language as well.]

Thousands of years from now there will be one common world language, but for this century the history will show that several languages emerged from the hundreds of world languages formerly spoken and written.

This will also be known as a time of growing global consciousness regarding the environment - else we will not be around a thousand years from now to write histories.

It will be known as the century of planned population control - or again, the future will be bleak.

A hundred years from now the War in Iraq will seem a small thing - a limited skirmish hardly worth a footnote.  The loss of US troops over five years does not amount to a single large battle of the American Civil War.  Although the loss of each individual serviceman or woman in Iraq over the recent five years matters a great deal to us now, in the USA we lose ten times more people every year to car accidents.  When historians look back, Iraq will seem a small incident.

This will also be the century that people switched form gasoline powered vehicles to electric modes of transport or possibly hydrogen powered vehicles.  The Middle East only started pumping out oil a little over 100 years ago.  In the next 100 years, that resource will be gone.  

Food will always be an essential, the USA will be crucial for world supply.

One other thought - chemotherapy as we use it now for malignant diseases - will be considered medieval and as barbaric as bloodletting looking back 100 years from now.

Older people will still die with cancer, but people must die of something to make room for younger generations.  Cancer treatments - for the many varieties of cancer - will be more specifically targeted at the cancerous cells.  Cancers will be detected earlier and, hopefully, many types of cancer will be prevented.  Lung cancers would decline by 80 to 90% in the next 20 years if everyone would stop smoking right now.

100 years ago, cancer was #8 on the top ten killer list compared to #2 now.  Relatively few people worldwide smoked a pack of cigarettes a day in 1908.

100 years from now, cancer will still be #2 following old age related cardiovascular disease, but the relative numbers of cancer deaths will be much lower - - IF we work on the global environment and health habits such as smoking.

In the year 2108 we will look back and say the 1990's were the peak years for lung cancer deaths related to the peculiar old habit of smoking a drug known then as tobacco.  The kids will be revolted by the the idea that people actually sucked addicting, carcinogenic smoke from burning vegetation into their own lungs.  There will be nothing "cool" about smoking.

Answer 5

they will teach them the present.

Answer 6

I'm guessing the War in Iraq.