Homework

On Tuesday we were handed a photocopy of a magazine article from December 1900. It's title was "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", and it was written by John Elfreth Watkins. Our assignment is to compare the predictions in this article with the book Brave New World. I haven't read that far yet.
The first similarity I noticed was about the wild animals. The article says "There will be no wild animals except in menageries." In the novel, so far no animals have been mentioned, and it's as if they don't exist at all.
Then there's the item about cars taking the place of horses and air-ships. It seems like in the book, air-ships have taken the place of both cars and horses.
One paragraph talked about how university would be free and how education would be different. That happened in Brave New World, but in a different way than John Watkins had guessed. I was about to say "I won't say more because SPOILER!" but only 2-3 people read my blog and no one comments—It really frustrates me too—so I'll just explain it. Education in the novel occurs mostly at sleep or at babyhood. They make them listen to tapes, or electrocute them to make them dislike something. While in our world students sit in classrooms with teachers.
I would write more but I've had a boring day and I'm sleepy.