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Welcome to the Future It’s now a new year. Congratulations, you’ve just traveled another 584 million miles at a speed of 67,000 miles an hour, with a swath width of 41.8 million feet. And you The year 2020 ought to be an interesting one.
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didn’t run out! The year 2020 ought to be an interesting one. One hundred years ago, we were on the backside of the loop in recovering from the first world war and entering what would come to be known as the roaring twenties. The automobile was growing from the rickety, noisy, unreliable contraptions to become a commonplace means of travel as roads and streets were being paved to suit them. Many of the new models had transformed from utilitarian crates to rolling works of art with powerful engines and comfortable seats. You could take your lady for a Sunday drive and she wouldn’t have to worry about messing up
her hair or getting mud on her dress. Some cars would even sport their very own radio. How nifty is that? The day would come when the crop duster loader truck would be invented and we would witness the degradation of everything considered mechanically right. The bane of the ag-pilot came when a modern truck for loading was converted back to a utilitarian crate; a rickety, noisy, unreliable contraption. In 1920, wires for electricity was being strung like a crazy spider web across the nation
