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What does the future look like to people watching electric light, telephones and aeroplanes change their world?
In The World in a Hundred Years, editor Arthur Brehmer brings together writers, scientists and public figures to imagine life a century ahead. This essay collection, published in Germany in 1910, explores how people might live, travel, work, fight and make art as machines reshape the world around them.
The essays move from technology in daily life to swelling cities, changing social roles, war, politics and culture. Their visions carry both hope and unease. As you read, you can compare these forecasts with the present—and ask what their expectations reveal about the world from which they look ahead.
What you’ll discover
- Machines enter daily life Explore forecasts shaped by electricity and engines, with everyday habits open to sweeping change.
- Cities keep growing Step into imagined cities where swelling populations bring questions about how people will live together.
- Conflict shadows the future See how arms races and European tensions leave their mark on visions of tomorrow.
- Art meets a changing world Consider whether art, learning and human feeling can endure as machines transform their surroundings.
- Old forecasts meet the present Compare the contributors’ hopes and fears with the world you know, weighing surprises against familiar concerns.
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- Technology will reshape everyday life
- Cities and society grow larger and stranger
- War and politics look different but remain
- Art and the human spirit endure
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Le Monde dans cent ans
Writers in 1910 imagine machines, cities and wars a hundred years ahead, revealing what their world hopes and fears.
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The World in a Hundred Years is a collection of essays edited by Arthur Brehmer and published in Germany in 1910. Brehmer asked writers, scientists and public figures of his day to picture the world a hundred years ahead and to describe how people would live, travel, fight, work and make art.
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Technology will reshape everyday life
The central bet of the collection is that machines will keep changing the world at the speed they were changing it in 1910. The contributors had seen electricity light up cities and engines replace horses. So they assume that the next hundred years will bring far more of the same.
Transport and communication are the favourite subjects. The writers picture faster travel over land, sea and air, and ways of sending voices and messages across great distances. Some of these guesses land close to the mark, while others miss in ways that now look charming.
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What is The World in a Hundred Years about?
It is a 1910 collection of essays in which writers and thinkers imagine the world a hundred years later. They cover topics such as technology, travel, cities, society, war and the arts, based on what they saw around them.
Who edited The World in a Hundred Years?
The German writer Arthur Brehmer edited it. He invited a range of contributors to write about the future, and he brought their essays together in one volume published in Berlin.
When was The World in a Hundred Years written?
It was published in 1910, a time of fast technical change in Europe. Electric power, telephones and early flight shaped how the contributors thought about the century ahead.
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