Question

Q9. Elucidate ‘The Fun They Had’ as a futuristic story.

Answer 1

The fun they had was a futuristic story as the theme was based on future that is the 2157 year where a thirteen years old Tommy founds a real book. He and Margie, eleven years old, found it strange that words on paper don't move even after a read. They were taught by a mechanical teacher who gave them homework and performed calculations on a big black screen. It also had a slot in which the all the homeworks and test papers have to be inserted by writing it in a punch code. Both of them thought that the times of earlier schools were more interesting than today.

Answer 2

The fun they had is a futuristic story as it is a story of 2157 year related to education and futuristic learning with computer also called the visual learning, virtual learning which according to the writer will cause chaos in the future.