The February 12 , 1922 Ogden Standard - Examiner ( Ogden , UT ) published this page , speculating on the globe 10,000 years hence . The piece is a shortened clause byHugo Gernsbackwith illustrations by Louis Biedermann . Excerpts appear below .
The up - to - particular date scientist has small difficulty in call certain matter that will happen in ten or fifty years , but a hundred century hence is a great decree , even for the most intrepid imaging . That practically nothing of our present civilisation will be left after 10,000 years may be safely predicted . We may also prophesy that human beings , a hundred centuries hence , will survive in entirely alter lot from those in which we now subsist .
Our exemplification draw one of the next metropolis floating richly in the air , several statute mile above the earth . The motion of sustaining such a large body in a rareified atmospheric state will prove to be of piddling trouble to our next electrical engineers . Just as we construct leviathans of the ocean to - Clarence Day , some of them weighing as much as 50,000 tons we shall manufacture total cities weigh billions of piles , which will be confine in space not by gas balloon , propeller , or the similar antiquated machinery , but by means of gravity - countermand devices . Already experimentation have been made whereby it has become possible to cut the weight unit of message by electric forces .
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