Today Then: America's Best Minds Look 100 Years into the Future on the Occasion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition Book

	Preface	11
	Introduction	13
	World Improving All the Time	25
	The Future Is a Fancyland Palace	27
	A Great Era for South America	29
	No Very Rich or Very Poor	32
	Distinctly American Drama Will Come	34
	Splendid Amazons and Pygmy Men	36
	I Speak from Experience	38
	More Harmonious Divorce Laws	41
	The Indian Tribes Will Disappear	43
	The Era of Woman as a Power Has Commenced	45
	Railroads - Uniform Speed Is the Answer	47
	The United States of the Americas	49
	Aluminum - Shining Symbol of the Age	51
	The Rich Trans-Mississippi West	54
	A Train Running 100 Miles An Hour	57
	Electrical Power Will Be Universal	59
	White House Will Be Enlarged	61
	National Population Under 300 Million	64
	Men Will Grow Wiser, Better, and Purer	67
	The Sunday Press - Permanent, Powerful	69
	Agriculture Can Meet All Demands	71
	Postage Reduced To One Cent	74
	Man Wears Too Much Cloth	76
	Society Governed By Economic Laws	78
	Two-Party System Will Be Invigorating	84
	United States To Dominate the Hemisphere	87
	Governing Least Governs Best	89
	Chicago Itself Will Support 3 Million Souls	91
	The Finest Municipal Development the World Has Ever Seen	93
	Life Must Grow More and More Complex	95
	Changes I Wish Might Happen	99
	Please Excuse Me...	101
	A New Theology Must Arise	102
	The United States - A Humane and Scientific Empire	105
	All Depends on Our Women	108
	A Better Humanity, a Closer Fraternity, a Broader Charity	110
	The Whirligig of Time	114
	A New Field Opens - The Canadian North	116
	Methodism and Its Brothers, in One Family	121
	The Most Businesslike Great Business Machine	123
	The Influences of Christianity Will Be Most Stupendous	125
	One of the Proudest Achievements of the American Civilization	127
	The Essence and the Externalities of Journalism	129
	The Greatest Music-Producing Nation on Earth	133
	The All-Around Lawyer Will Be a Rara Avis	135
	The Production and Use of Precious Stones	137
	Only Minor Changes in Our System of Government	139
	An Enormous System of Inland Merchant Marine	141
	Remarkable Changes in Everyday Life	143
	American Cotton Will Control World Markets	146
	Man Is Not a Bad Animal at All	148
	The Nicaraguan Canal Is Inevitable	150
	Perfect Government, Improved People	152
	Of Women, Literature, Temperance, Marriage, Etc	154
	Society Must Move Toward Simplicity, Honesty, and Truth	157
	The Last Man Must Have Land for His Standing Place	160
	Brotherly Cooperation and Social Reform	164
	New Developments in Electricity Are Enormous	167
	Journalism Is Pivotal in Man's Conquest of the Elements	171
	Marked Changes in Medicine, Theology, Education	173
	Improvements So Extraordinary the World Will Shudder	175
	Buffalo-Hamilton-Niagara Falls - Greatest Manufacturing Center in the World	180
	Simplification and Cooperation	182
	The Wonderful Development of Florida	184
	Remarkable Progress of the Nation Toward Purity	186
	More Complex Political and Social Reform	188
	Government Nearer To the People	194
	Government Should Never Own Modes of Transportation or Communication	196
	Revolutionary Trends in Drama and Music	198
	Most Progress Will Not Be Radical	201
	Revolutionary Improvements in Transportation	204
	The Purpose of Wealth Is a Divine Purpose	208
	The South as Manufacturing Empire	210
	All Prophecy Is Futile	212
	Populations of U.S. States & Territories, 1890 & 1990; Most Populous Cities in the United States, 1890 & 1990	215
	Index	222