Good heavens!And was this the era of conquest that I had hoped to see?I had always taken for granted that humanity was destined to move forward.This picture of desolation rendered me almost speechless.(19 I gasped out a question. "Where are the streetcars and the motors?" Oh,done away with long ago 20,"he said. "But how do you get about 21?" “We don't,"he answered.“Why should we? It's just the same being here as being anywhere else
Good heavens! And was this the era of conquest that I had hoped to see? I had always taken for granted that humanity was destined to move forward. This picture of desolation rendered me almost speechless.(19) I gasped out a question. “Where are the streetcars and the motors?” “Oh, done away with long ago(20),” he said. “But how do you get about(21)?” “ We don’t,” he answered. “Why should we? It’s just the same being here as being anywhere else
A thousand questions surged into my mind at once 22).I asked one of the simplest. "But how do you get back and forth to your work?" "Work!"he said."There isn't any work." I looked at him a moment open-mouthed. I tried to pull my senses together 23).I realized that if I was to find out about this new and undreamed-of future,I must go at it systematically 21. "I see,”I said after a pause,.“that momentous 25)things have happened since my time.I wish you would explain to me bit
A thousand questions surged into my mind at once(22). I asked one of the simplest. “But how do you get back and forth to your work?” “Work!” he said . “There isn’t any work.” I looked at him a moment open－mouthed. I tried to pull my senses together(23). I realized that if I was to find out about this new and undreamed-of future, I must go at it systematically(24). “I see,” I said after a pause, “that momentous(25) things have happened since my time. I wish you would explain to me bit
by bit.First,what do you mean by saying that there is no work?" Why,"answered my strange acquaintance,"it died out 26 of itself.Machinery killed it.If I remember rightly,you had a certain amount of machinery even in your time." I nodded assent 27). "But you found it did you no good.The better your machines,the harder you worked.The more things you had,the more you wanted.You were all caught in the cogs ofyour own machine 28." That is quite true,"I said
I nodded assent(27). “But you found it did you no good. The better your machines, the harder you worked. The more things you had, the more you wanted. You were all caught in the cogs of your own machine(28).” “ That is quite true,” I said. by bit. First, what do you mean by saying that there is no work?” “Why,” answered my strange acquaintance, “it died out (26) of itself. Machinery killed it. If I remember rightly, you had a certain amount of machinery even in your time
Well,then,there came the Era of the Great Conquest of Nature,the final victory of Man and Machinery.” "They did conquer it?"I asked quickly,with a thrill of the old hope in my veins again. “Conquered it,.”he said,“beat it out!2 Things came one by one.In a hundred years it was all done.In fact,just as soon as mankind turned its energy to decreasing 30 its needs instead of increasing its desires,the whole thing was easy.Chemical Food came first. Heavens!The simplicity of it. /Agriculture went overboard.Eating and
“ Well, then, there came the Era of the Great Conquest of Nature, the final victory of Man and Machinery.” “They did conquer it?” I asked quickly, with a thrill of the old hope in my veins again. “Conquered it,” he said, “beat it out!(29) Things came one by one. In a hundred years it was all done. In fact, just as soon as mankind turned its energy to decreasing(30) its needs instead of increasing its desires, the whole thing was easy. Chemical Food came first. Heavens! The simplicity of it. (31)Agriculture went overboard. Eating and
all that goes with it,domestic labor, housework-all ended.Nowadays one takes a concentrated pill every year or so,that's all. Then came Asbestos Clothes.In one year humanity made enough suits to last forever and ever.That.of course,could never have been if it hadn't been connected with the revolt of women and the fall of Fashion."32 “Have the Fashion gone,”I asked,“that insane33, extravagant 34idea of "I was about to launch into one of my old-time harangues about the sheer vanity of decorative dress③5，when my eye rested on the moving figures in asbestos,and I stopped
all that goes with it, domestic labor, housework—all ended. Nowadays one takes a concentrated pill every year or so, that’s all. Then came Asbestos Clothes. In one year humanity made enough suits to last forever and ever. That, of course, could never have been if it hadn’t been connected with the revolt of women and the fall of Fashion.”(32) “Have the Fashion gone,” I asked, “that insane(33), extravagant(34)idea of—”I was about to launch into one of my old-time harangues about the sheer vanity of decorative dress (35),when my eye rested on the moving figures in asbestos, and I stopped