In the text, "What May Happen In The Next Hundred Years (published in 1900)," John Elfreth Watkins Jr. predicts what will happen in the next 100 years.  If you compare it with Aldous Huxleys book Brave New World, you can find many similarities. Like the fact that you will be able to travel from England to any place in the world in less that two days, and that there will be a machine for everything, but none of them are as accurate as the one about how there will be no wild animals, except in menageries. Menageries, are exactly like the place where Savage comes from, "a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition*". You can see that Aldous Huxley was greatly influenced by the predictions of the people before him. Both talked about the improvement of machines, but one about how it will lead us to good, and the other about how it will lead us to changing the face of the human race. Two predictions, portraying the same idea, somehow bring us two totally different conclusions. One about a world a step closer to utopia, the other to dystopia.

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