1. Now write a 250-word essay in which you evaluate and analyze sources 1, 2, and 3. In your essay, focus on three or four of the predictions and discuss whether they have come true. What words did the authors use to describe them? What details did they give? If these predictions came true, how would you describe them? If they didn’t, do you think they may be possible in the future? Why or why not? Why do you think people try to predict the future? What skills might enable someone to make an accurate prediction? Cite your sources in parentheses within the text.

2. Now look at the following images. All three were made by artists at different times in history to depict how people might live in the future.

Select one of the images and write a 200-word essay about it. What is the artist depicting? What are some details in the image that attract your attention? How would you compare this image to the sources you read earlier? Would some of the elements that writers described in the previous activity exist in these images? In what way?