From the day
Perspective: The Future Historian · Sound
The rhythmic *clack-clack* of horseshoes on cobblestone competes with a distant gramophone warbling "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home," a melody that feels like the very pulse of this modern age. My word, the chatter on the street is thick with talk of General Grant’s triumphs over the Filipino insurgents, though I am more fascinated by the hum of the experimental **air conditioner** promising to chill our sweltering summers. I observe an elegant gentleman adjusting his bulky **hearing aids** to catch the news, unaware that scientists are already tinkering with a **lie detector** to strip the artifice from human speech. In this cacophony of progress, the sounds of 1902 signal a terrifyingly transparent future.