As we look back over the last 112 years, we realise that through all the horror, fear, and suffering of the 20th Century, there was, indeed, enormous technological and social progress – enough to gratify far-seers like John Elfreth Watkins. What will the next century be like, we wonder? If we cast our imaginations farther into the distant country which we ourselves will be unlikely to see, what do we predict for our progeny?

Is 'everybody will be travelling by Segway ' really the best we can do?