FICTION | DRABBLE | CHALLENGE
Imagining THE WORLD Without Imagination — A Drabble Challenge
How would inventions not being invented change our world?
Do you remember the last time you were told to “Just use your imagination!”? Likely whoever you were talking to was fed up with your questions! At least that was true for me as a child.
If you’re like me, you have an insatiable curiosity and want to know how things work or you can’t stop the constant pictures that play ping pong in your head.
But what if there was no such thing as imagination? What if we didn’t have the ability to make things up and invent things? What would our world look like now if these discoveries and inventions hadn’t been imagined by someone in our past?
Electricity was discovered by Benjamin Franklin in 1759. Imagine your life without it. What would you be doing? How would you survive?
And then, more than 100 years later (1879) the electric bulb was invented by Thomas Edison. How many varieties of this invention have been used since then?
Finally, look at this partial list of inventions that literally changed the world. Each one was first imagined by someone and then made into reality. Imagine what your life would be like…
