What the world will be like 50 years from now: "There are no more conflicts in the world because the United Nations is gone."
This is not a time capsule that we found during excavations, nor is it a bottle found by lovers from the sea in which things written decades or even centuries ago are sealed and poured into the water. Nor is it a pot of antiquities found on earth.
So what is it?
These are the letters written to the BBC Urdu service by its listeners 50 years ago in connection with a competition and they are about to be found by our senior and dear colleague Rashid Ashraf.
And the place from which they found these letters is not a cave or an ocean, but their attic or upper cell, where they have kept these letters for fifty years.
We have always been convinced of Rashid's sophistication and excellent broadcasting, but the BBC Urdu service and his loving listeners have always been grateful to him for the manner in which he handled these letters. Will
Why were these letters written to the BBC?
Fifty years ago today, the BBC held a contest in which it asked its listeners what they thought the world would be like fifty years from now, and then it was as if people were ready for a journey of fifty years. ۔ He traveled half a century in the blink of an eye like a science fiction movie. Rashid describes it this way:
The Jahan Nama program was launched in April 1969. That's what i used to do Initially, it was only 15 minutes, but within a few months, it was extended to half an hour. On this occasion, in late 1969, a competition was held on "what the world will be like after fifty years."
"Five radio sets were awarded as prizes for good subjects," he says. There were about a thousand responses, of which twenty-five were selected.
In these letters, BBC fans from across Pakistan and India expressed their views and often raised their voices as high as the moon that first landed on the moon in July 1969. The car did.
There was talk of a journey from the moon to Mars and Venus, a radical change in social and cultural life, computers, talking machines, flying cars, wars, attacks on New York, amazing advances in chemistry and medicine. New ideas, the average age of 200 years, crops at sea, distance learning or home-based education, climate and geographical change, so that the fall after the rise of the world was also depicted.
Surprisingly, most people also estimated the world's population in 2020 to be more or less accurate, that is, seven billion or a little more. So these were the listeners of BBC Urdu who not only liked BBC Urdu and benefited from it but also the institution always learned something from them.
According to Rashid Ashraf, "Looking at these letters, I realized what a good ability people had to use their language in the society of that time and even in a long article there was no hesitation in using their language."
Another good thing about the letters was that women also took part in the competition and painted a beautiful picture of the world of the future.
Mirrors of some letters
Muzaffar Ali Kazmi, Peshawar
Naseem Rehana, Islamabad
The 21st century will be a century of relaxation of the body and constant dancing of the mind and hands. If the 20th century is called the century of the wheel, then the 21st century will be called the century of the button.
"We don't have to worry about our population going to the moon. Because researchers on the human race will have reached the point where Eve will not have to go through any creative ordeal for any other entity, but this work will be done by machines and human and animal desires of man. Machines will also be present for the completion.
"People in the 21st century will proudly cite the pages of history to reveal that the people of the past were followers of different religions and believed that the universe was created by a god."
"It is also decisive that most of the countries of the East, like today, will be on the brink of development tomorrow with heavy debts and large relief supplies."
Shaheen Raza Siddiqui, Rahim Yar Khan
"Meetings were held today in all the cemeteries of the world, flowers were laid on the graves of the starving in the capitalist system and they were declared oppressed."
Ayesha Haleem, Bhopal
"Scientists today, in the light of their new experiments, research and innovations, continue to report on human welfare in the years to come, suggesting that today's man will be a machine in fifty years." In other words, the machine would have taken its place.
"In view of the busy life, mobile schools for primary education, specialized institutes and staff in trains and motors will spread the light of knowledge in every house on a constituency-wise basis."
Due to the lack of moral values in this paradise-like world, which is glowing with new civilization and development, inhumane incidents will become a trivial matter in the days to come. Murder, looting, robbery and kidnapping, open burglary and bribery and countless other corruption and other moral crimes that have become the norm of daily life are not a disgrace to human civilization. Therefore, it would not be wrong to say that this human civilization will commit suicide by its own hands. In addition, the development of science and technology, the artificial environment of the mechanical age ... New germs can cause new diseases in humans.
Hanif Bawani Rangoni, Karachi
"After listening to the tape record, I found out that fifty years ago I was suffering from a deadly and incurable disease and I was frozen. I am well now. "
Hearts, kidneys, etc. used to be replaced fifty years ago, but now the brains of lunatics, lunatics and mental patients are removed from the skull, repaired and replaced, or replaced with another human or an artificial brain made of a certain substance. Goes. '
On my way back, I told the doctor that I wish I had not been frozen. Will my 50-year-old brain be able to keep up with the modern age? So the doctor laughed and said, "While freezing you, your brain was damaged due to the lack of knowledge of the doctors at that time, so we have already changed it."
Rachel Mumtaz, Kohat
Today is 2019. I belong to one of the poorest families of this century. The building I live in has 80 floors and 500 families live in this building. Upstairs there is a large field and downstairs canals. The quarters where I live consist of three rooms, a kitchen and a toilet.
"We can turn them all into one hall at the push of a button when we need to ..." We have four servants, but not one of them is a human being, but they are very similar in appearance, stature, and dress.
"I am currently the headmistress of the school. In one of our school buildings, four shifts run in 24 hours. In which the staff of each shift is separate ... There is a telephone set on one side of my desk, on which I sit and inspect every part of my school all the time. And I can hear their voices clearly. In addition, most of the education in our school is provided by our Education Department Center, which is one thousand miles away from our school. From where many lessons are given for different classes at the same time.
I live in Pakistan and Pakistan is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the north and south, Assam and Vietnam to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The capital of our country is Makkah and the president resides on the moon. The United States, Japan, Russia and Australia are our debtors. There are no more fights in the world because the United Nations is gone.
Muhammad Arshad Chaudhry, Sialkot
"My name is David and I'm an American citizen. Exactly fifty years ago, on November 30, 1969, at the age of 80, I died of lung cancer, but six months before my death, I had reserved a place for myself in a company's cold storage for 20 20,000. So my body was stored in a morgue and I was resurrected a month and a half ago today when a cure for cancer was discovered. The average age of a man has reached 200 years. Changing human organs is like changing a shirt ... Transgender injections have been invented, but no effective cold medicine has yet been invented.
Parveen, Rawalpindi
"It's 2021 ... After the boy's admission, he went to a space clothing store where he bought space clothing because he wanted to spend the summer holidays on the moon and then on Venus and Mars. From there he went to the hospital for a check-up.
There was a machine on the porch of the hospital in which he wrote down his purpose. After a few minutes, the machine instructed them to go to a room where the doctor put them in front of a machine. As soon as he stood there, the internal organs of his body from head to toe became clear. The doctor advised him to change his heart and lungs. The next day, he went to the hospital to buy a certain number of hearts and lungs from a human organ store and had his heart and lungs replaced.
On the third day, they were able to embark on their space journey. So the next day he set out on a journey to the moon with his family. Beautiful hotels were built on the moon with excellent accommodation and food. Assuming that two months later they arrived on Earth after a journey from the moon, Venus and Mars.
What topics have you written about?
Fifty years after the BBC's life, listeners have broadened their horizons and written informative articles on various areas of life, including science. Most of his ideas came true 50 years later and many are still being worked on. That's why we salute these 'scientists' of the BBC 50 years ago.
It is not possible to include all of these letters here, so we have categorized the articles that our listeners tested on, in addition to some of the letters above. Because 1969 was the year Neil Armstrong made his first step on the moon, almost every letter mentioned the moon. So let's start here.
Moon, Venus, Mars
Rahim Yar Khan's Raza Siddiqui Amrohi's creativity awoke a little more and he read the BBC news of 14 November 2019 fifty years ago. The news was this morning that everyone on Earth, the Moon, Venus and Mars was overjoyed to see Miss Littlewood, a female traveler, turn into blue rays of light on television and praised the scientists. Miss Littlewood was successfully retrieved from Earth in its original state on Mars' main light station, and this layered transformation process and journey took 90 minutes.
Nizam Ahmed from Karachi wrote, “People no longer have to think about oxygen to go to the moon, because in 1980 the United States made an oxygen bomb and took it to the moon and tore it up. After that, American astronauts do not carry oxygen to the moon. The Americans have benefited greatly from this facility.
Flying cars
The world has become flying cars that are automatic and travel two hundred miles in a quarter of an hour. People sit in cars powered by nuclear energy. Most cars fly and run on solar energy.
Computer
It is common to use a computer that does all kinds of calculations and gives the right advice. No man's movement can be hidden, thieves are careful and very rarely.
Husbands and wives who do not trust each other keep an eye on each other from a computer, no matter where they are. Only what is in the brain can be hidden, but soon a machine will come into existence that will record everything that comes to the mind.
Marriage theory and family life
Fifty years later, most listeners in the world have taken this point very seriously. "Fifty years later, people will be free from religious and social barriers and will choose to choose their spouse according to their personal views and preferences, regardless of religion or nationality, caste or creed," he wrote. And legally, they will have complete freedom to live together or not.
Sirajuddin from Bannu wrote, “There is no ban on marriage but after fifty years, men and women will not like to get married. They will work in the same place, eat, drink, laugh and sleep and there will be no restrictions on anyone, so who will fall into the cycle of marriage.
Housing and living conditions
Ayesha Haleem from Bhopal wrote that with the development of plastics today, there is a possibility that in the next fifty years, strong and beautiful flats made of beautiful colorful plastic and special cement will have come to the fore. The invention of folding houses would have almost solved the housing problem and the absence of housing would be a thing of the past.
Syed Waqar Haider from Karachi wrote that there is a facility in plastic houses that in one way the heart was filled, then the walls were moved back and forth and the house was ready on another map.
Replacement of body parts
Many successful organ transplants, such as eye, kidney, lung and especially heart transplants, have taken man by surprise today, so it is speculated that fifty years from now, every defective organ will be replaced by a new one. It is not wrong to be able to give life.
Education
One listener wrote that schooling is no longer as difficult as it used to be. The concept of schools has changed. "Now buy only one 'Techogram' for your child's education. This is your child's teacher. If it slows down the work and doesn't teach the children responsibly, people will take back the price. The procedure is to turn it on at night while sleeping and cover the baby with what you see as a 'brain cap', and that's it. You sleep well But you are worried about who will stop T-Gram. Don't worry at all. As soon as the child remembers the lesson, the T-gram will stop.
Fifty years ago, our audience pointed out that students have no more opportunities to sit together, think, understand, discuss and debate without discrimination, with most of the advantages and disadvantages of the method of teaching students sitting in front of distant computers. Will be found which are necessary for collective warfare.
Which could not be
Many also wrote in their articles that the doors of each other's country would be open for human beings, as unfortunately this has not happened yet. Rasheed Ahmed Baig, a listener, wrote to Anantnag that by the year 2020, the Communists would have prevailed everywhere.
Similarly, Sirajuddin Qureshi from Bannu wrote that the red flag would have been hoisted all over the world except the United States, Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
The arrival and departure of tourists to the moon and Mars, which is still in search.
Disease control is an ongoing process.
Equality and brotherhood all over the world that is the desire and the aspiration.
And some think about the breadth of the audience
- Genetic science will be so advanced that there will be as many chickens as horses and as many goats as elephants.
- The monkeys must have learned to fire rockets
- The compressor will be a pocket-sized rocket that can be pulled out of the pocket at any time by pressing a button and moving.
- Crops will grow on the bottom of the sea
- Climate-proof houses will automatically become two to three storeys high
- The houses will have a machine that will separate oxygen and hydrogen from the air and mix a certain amount to provide good quality water. In this way, the problem of drinking water will be solved
- Due to putrefaction and space constraints, the cemetery will have small rooms. Where pressing a button will shrink the corpse like a doll
- The world's greatest robber went to the moon to cure his illness and caused havoc there too, but then he was overcome
And this is exactly what can be said after this excellent science fiction series for the BBC audience:
What the eye sees cannot come to the lips
I wonder what the world will be like
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