To commemorate the American Bicentennial in 1976 , the fossil oil company ARCO call for schoolchildren across the nation to illustrate what they remember the United States would look like in the twelvemonth 2076 .
ARCO encounter 100 of letters and drawings from pupil . And in a potentially unforeseen whirl , some of these tricentenary visual modality predicted a future rip from a Cormac McCarthy novel .
Courtesy of Matt Novak of thePaleofuture Blog , here ’s a group of exemplification by Dr. Harriet Eisenberg ’s pupils at New York ’s John F. Kennedy High School . In the first drawing , student Joanne Connaire predict a future where we will all don elephantine gas masks .
educatee Robert Berman depicted a future where the suffer in Space robot is the administrator - in - chieftain …
… and Tina Kambitsis draw a nuclear Revelation , follow by a radioactive Garden of Eden scenario that has blessed avians with the natural endowment of gab .
Finally , a 4th grader in Mary Ellen Caesar ’s category at Sacred Heart School in Massachusetts ostensibly took a cue from global intellectual nourishment and energy scarceness of the Seventies . This student predicted a coming back to small agrarian communities .
( On an unrelated Federal Reserve note , I sort of wish well The Hunger Games came out in the seventies , so it was a disco music musical not unlikeThe Apple . )
https://gizmodo.com/its-a-shiny-dancy-pop-fascist-future-in-the-apple-347055
you could check out more tricentenary weirdness from the 1976 young person of Americaright here .
https://gizmodo.com/letters-to-the-year-2076-from-high-schoolers-in-the-ye-5819703
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