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​ Back to the Future
By Terri L. Jones

"Does your family have a robot that cooks and cleans? Does your mom fly to work with a jetpack on her back? Just 50 years ago, that's how some people imagined life in 2009. After all, anything is possible in the future.

Make the following comments on the article: Respond to others also
 * Your Id || Key ideas about your article. What would you tell others about this article. ||  ||   ||
 * ​Blue56152 || 1. that there were jetpacks made but they were hard to make 2. a lot of things have been built so far but theyare to much work to make them ||
 * red336 || That we might have to technoligy un the upcoming year and we also might have new ways of transportation and new cities. ||
 * Orange15099 || Scientists have thought of trying to build cities in space under a large dome so that wecan watch the "Earthrise". ||
 * Yellow56147 || many people thought in the year 2009 it would be all technology and robots. ||
 * Green337 || A lot of people in the 1950's thought that the future would have robots that would do everything for a house and humans. ||

Please include your ID || Yellow56147 || That people in the 1900's thought we would use jetpacks and moving belts to get places. || What year do the scientists estamate we could go and live on the moon for months at a time? || Green337- Heres ur answer, [|Click Here] || so high || ​Blue56152: i agree about the g-force i do not think it will happen but you will never know what will go on in the future || Please include your ID || Orange15099- Since you mentioned that you see flying cars in the future, check out this website! It has some pretty cool information on futrue cars. [] . ||
 * Your ID || I learned || I have this question? || **Respond to others here**
 * ​Blue56152 || ​1. everything that we have now is what people wished for back then 2. a man fllew 22 miles in a jet pack || ​what about the buildings what will they do about them ? ||  Orange15099- What do you mean? I dont understand what you are trying to say . ||
 * red336 || People back then like in th 50's thought that we were going to have all of this new stuff today. || Are people still trying to make all of this new stuff that people wanted back then. || Orange15099- I personally think that they still are becuse of all the new technology that is being created these days. ||
 * Orange15099 || With a fireproof suit and a 120 lb jetpack on his back, Yves Ross sucsessfully flew across the english channel. || How were the computers 50 years ago could be the size if a room? How big were their monitors? Because to me it seems very unrealistic. || Yellow56147- i would thing they were pretty big because they had no memory chip and they had to store all the data within them. [[image:http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0802/0000/0127/ict_equipment33_mid.jpg width="120" height="107" align="right" caption="this is one of the first computers."]] ||
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 * Green337 || people were thinking of stuff that we have today except for the 'Humans livin' on the moon thing.' || how would people travel in high speed trains when the G-force is going to be
 * Respond to my question below:**
 * Your Id || What do you think the future looks like? || **Respond to others here**
 * ​Blue56152 || ​I think the future will look like a bunch of flying cars over my haed people that go in tubes to move around if they do not have a car building will be in many different shapes and houses will be mansions || []
 * red336 || The future will probably look alot different then it does today. We will have alot more stuff and it will be more complicated. So i would say that the future will probably be alot cooler . || Orange15099- What kind of "stuff" are you seeing in the future? ||
 * Orange15099 || To me, the future looks a lot different. I think that there is going to be a lot of advanced technology and that most things are going to be done on computers. || Yellow56147- i would have to agree. i mean, look how much technology is in our world and how advanced it is!!!! just imagine it in another 20 years!!!!!!!!!! ||
 * Yellow56147 || i think the future will be all technology. and handheld everything! and expandable foods. and robots for every task in your house!!! || Blue56152: that would be so cool if thats what would happen I think that there will be robots and tube to move people around and building higher then you can ever imagine  ||
 * Green337 || I think that in the future we will have many more types of transportation and also we will have robots that do everything || ​ ||
 * Vocabulary Builder**: Choose a vocabulary word you learned from your reading. There must be no duplicate words
 * Your ID || Vocabulary Word ||
 * Orange15099 || inventor- a person who makes something new ||
 * Yellow56147 || Earthlings-people from Earth. ||
 * Green337 || prediction-statement about what might happen in the future ||


 * Your ID || Picture Extra Credit ||
 * red336 || [[image:Jetpack.jpg width="347" height="321"]] ||
 * Orange15099 || [[image:future_cars.jpg width="326" height="161"]] ||
 * Yellow56147 || [[image:http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/imrans41/FutureCars/FutureCars006.jpg width="318" height="245" caption="FutureCars006.jpg image by imrans41"]] ||
 * Green337 || [[image:http://www.nss.org/tourism/SpaceShipTwo-1600.jpg width="353" height="302"]] ||